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Hamilton County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

2,518pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Syracuse, Kendall.

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 Hamilton titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Fort Aubrey Site	Syracuse	Site	1978
Menno Community Hall	Kendall	Building	2003
Northup Theater	Syracuse	Building	2005

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

HAMILTON created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
168	1,426	2,586	2,645	3,696	3,144	2,514	2,670	2,518

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

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bear Creek Cemetery	37.76067	-101.934
Coolidge Cemetery	38.05697	-102.00135
Ebenfleur Cemetery	37.82639	-101.68813
Kendall Cemetery	37.94331	-101.54245
Menno Cemetery	37.79399	-101.56595
Sunnyvale Cemetery	37.91311	-101.98212
Syracuse Cemetery	37.9923	-101.76925

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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