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Gove County, Kansas

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1868formed

2,718pop. 2020

13cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980. Most listings are in or near Gove, Oakley, Grainfield.

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 Gove titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Beamer Barn	Oakley	Building	2010
Benson Culvert	Gove	Structure	2013
Grainfield Opera House	Grainfield	Building	1980
Jenkins Culvert	Gove	Structure	2013
Oxley Barn	Quinter	Building	2008

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Gove was formed in 1868 (1868-03-11) from unknown / original county.

GOVE created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,196	2,441	4,748	4,793	4,447	4,107	3,726	3,068	2,718

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

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

Cemeteries — 13 of 13 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alanthus Cemetery	38.77298	-100.28254
Baker Township Cemetery	39.07315	-100.22397
Gove Cemetery	38.9459	-100.48396
Grainfield Cemetery	39.11808	-100.47365
Grinnell Cemetery	39.13019	-100.63483
Immaculate Conception Cemetery	39.12801	-100.63183
Morning Star Cemetery	38.84337	-100.33525
Old Order German Baptist Cemetery	39.02985	-100.20514
Pyramid View Cemetery	38.75768	-100.7905
Red Top Cemetery	38.94468	-100.24365
Sacred Heart Cemetery	39.11473	-100.35597
Swedish Lutheran Cemetery	38.76538	-100.60896
Zion Norwegian Cemetery	39.04697	-100.7961

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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