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Kiowa County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

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5historic places

—earliest paper

1867formed

2,460pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Greensburg, Coldwater, Greensburg vicinity.

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 Kiowa titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Archeological Site Number 14KW301	Coldwater	Site	1982
Archeological Site Number 14KW302	Greensburg vicinity	Site	1982
Fromme-Birney Round Barn	Mullinville	Building	1987
Greensburg Well	Greensburg	Structure	1972
Robinett, S.D., Building	Greensburg	Building	2009

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Kiowa was formed in 1867 (1867-02-26) from Marion.

KIOWA created from MARION.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,873	2,365	6,164	5,112	4,743	4,626	4,046	3,278	2,460

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Belvidere Cemetery	37.45502	-99.04927
Boles Cemetery	37.56473	-99.01453
Fairview Cemetery	37.61364	-99.28678
Haviland Cemetery	37.62901	-99.10789
Hillcrest Cemetery	37.59224	-99.48456
McKinley Cemetery	37.63252	-99.47706

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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