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Graham County, Kansas

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
4historic places
—earliest paper
1867formed
2,415pop. 2020
23cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Penokee, Morland, Nicodemus.

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 Graham titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

4 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Antelope Lake ParkMorlandDistrict2008
Keith, Harry, BarnPenokeeBuilding2013
Nicodemus Historic District; Nicodemus National Historic Site NHLNicodemusDistrict1976
Penokee Stone FigurePenokeeSite1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Graham was formed in 1867 (1867-02-26) from unknown / original county.

GRAHAM created from Non-County Area 2 attached to RILEY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

8,7005,5572,415188019201950196020002020
188019001920194019501960198020002020
4,2585,1737,6246,0715,0205,5863,9952,9462,415

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
NICOPark unit23.2 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 23 of 23 listed
NameLatLon
Anderson Cemetery39.40781-100.09791
Brush Creek Cemetery39.30132-99.97439
Buchanan Brown Cemetery39.52479-99.63988
Fagan Cemetery39.36366-99.73279
Hill City Cemetery39.39393-99.84406
Leland Cemetery39.22538-100.01556
McFarland Cemetery39.46586-99.66597
Morlan Township Cemetery39.2264-99.69817
Morland Cemetery39.34275-100.07079
Mount Olive Cemetery39.39353-99.69385
Nicodemus Cemetery39.40822-99.60287
Nicodemus Cemetery39.4091-99.62021
Penokee Cemetery39.34248-99.97304
Prairie Dale Cemetery39.56163-99.62048
Prairie Home Cemetery39.18983-99.85672
Redline Cemetery39.23501-99.64206
Rock Creek Cemetery39.40716-99.99383
Roscoe Cemetery39.49603-99.76987
Saint Anthony Cemetery39.18912-100.08072
Samuels Cemetery39.30735-99.67906
South Star Cemetery39.48062-99.99362
Whitfield Cemetery39.55315-99.70541
Wild Horse Cemetery39.34397-99.68707

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

Historical markers

HMdb link

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