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Gray County, Kansas

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6historic places

—earliest paper

1881formed

5,653pop. 2020

9cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1983. Most listings are in or near Ingalls, Cimarron.

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 Gray titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Barton, Welborn 'Doc', House	Ingalls	Building	2010
Cimarron City Jail	Cimarron	Building	2019
Cimarron Hotel	Cimarron	Building	1983
Gray County Courthouse (Old)	Cimarron	Building	2009
Soule Canal-Gray County Segment 1	Ingalls	Structure	2014
Soule Canal-Gray County Segment 2	Ingalls	Structure	2014

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Gray was formed in 1881 (1881-03-13) from part of BUFFALO, all of FOOTE.

GRAY created from part of BUFFALO and all of FOOTE; BUFFALO and FOOTE eliminated.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Gray County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,415	1,264	4,711	4,773	4,894	4,380	5,138	5,904	5,653

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

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

Cemeteries — 9 of 9 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cave Cemetery	37.5471	-100.25255
Cimarron Cemetery	37.81755	-100.34111
Copeland Cemetery	37.54539	-100.61742
Ensign Cemetery	37.62777	-100.23438
Evans Cemetery	37.53272	-100.47897
Fairview Cemetery	37.64308	-100.41515
Ingalls-Logan Cemetery	37.84171	-100.45826
Johnson Cemetery	37.70844	-100.21558
North Mennonite Cemetery	37.6208	-100.47866

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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