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Greeley County, Kansas

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

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—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

1,284pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Tribune.

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 Greeley titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Greeley County Courthouse	Tribune	Building	1976

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Greeley was formed in 1873 (1873-03-20) from unknown / original county.

GREELEY created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3	493	1,028	1,638	2,010	2,087	1,845	1,534	1,284

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

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bethany Cemetery	38.68338	-101.64147
Greely County Cemetery	38.45894	-101.75307
Mathews Cemetery	38.39343	-101.99335
Rodgers Cemetery	38.49487	-101.96669

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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