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Finney County, Kansas

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11historic places

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1883formed

38,470pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 11 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Garden City, Pierceville.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Kansas is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Finney titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 11 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

11 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
900 Block North Seventh Street Historic District	Garden City	District	1998
Buffalo Hotel	Garden City	Building	2008
Bungalow Historic District	Garden City	District	2000
Cedar Cliff	Garden City	Building	1997
Finney County Point of Rocks	Pierceville	Site	2013
Hope House	Garden City	Building	2000
Little Finnup House	Garden City	Building	2000
Sabine Hall	Garden City	Building	1996
The J.H. Stevens-C.L. Thompson Block Historic District	Garden City	District	2024
Thompson, Sen. William H., House	Garden City	Building	1996
Windsor Hotel	Garden City	Building	1972

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Finney was formed in 1883 (1883-02-22) from all of ARAPAHOE, Sequoyah, parts of GRANT, Gray, Kearney, Lane, Meade.

FINNEY created from all of ARAPAHOE and SEQUOYAH, and parts of GRANT, GRAY, KEARNEY (now KEARNY), LANE, and MEADE; ARAPAHOE, GRANT, GRAY, KEARNEY, MEADE, and SEQUOYAH eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Finney County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
568	3,469	7,674	10,092	15,092	16,093	23,825	40,523	38,470

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Eminence Cemetery	38.14652	-100.51784
Garfield Cemetery	38.17475	-100.38246
Goldamer Cemetery	37.77298	-100.90723
Hulpieu Homestead Cemetery	38.06252	-100.85738
Pierceville Cemetery	37.88624	-100.66545
Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery	37.95931	-100.79336
Toper Cemetery	38.03234	-100.95659
Valley View Cemetery	37.99555	-100.86769

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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