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Lyon County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

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20historic places

—earliest paper

1855formed

32,179pop. 2020

38cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 20 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Emporia, Americus, Hartford.

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 Lyon titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

19 of 20 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

20 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Anderson Carnegie Memorial Library	Emporia	Building	1987
Cross, Col. H.C. and Susan, House	Emporia	Building	2011
Emporia Downtown Historic District	Emporia	District	2012
Finney, Warren Wesley, House	Emporia	Building	1992
Granada Theater	Emporia	Building	1985
Harris Bridge	Americus	Structure	1985
Harris-Borman House	Emporia	Building	1992
Hartford Collegiate Institute	Hartford	Building	1972
Howe, Richard, House	Emporia	Building	1986
Keebler-Stone House	Emporia	Building	1992
Kress Building	Emporia	Building	1983
Mason, Walt, House	Emporia	Building	1992
McCarty, W.T. and Olivia, House	Emporia	Building	2025
Mouse, Snowden S., Service Station and Tourist Home	Emporia	Building	2018
Old Emporia Public Library	Emporia	Building	1981
Plumb, Mrs. Preston B., House	Emporia	Building	1984
Rocky Ford Bridge	Emporia	Structure	2020
Soden's Grove Bridge	Emporia	Site	1983
Soden, Hallie B., House	Emporia	Building	1977
White, William Allen, House NHL	Emporia	Building	1971

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lyon was formed in 1855 (1855-08-25) from unknown / original county.

BRECKENRIDGE (now LYON) created by Kansas Territory from non-county area.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Lyon County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
8,014	17,326	25,074	26,154	26,424	26,576	26,928	35,108	35,935	32,179

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).

Site	Type	Dist.
tapr	Park unit	34.5 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 38 of 38 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Admire Cemetery	38.65115	-96.10735
Agnes City Cemetery	38.68816	-96.28047
Allen Cemetery	38.65202	-96.16146
Badger Creek Cemetery	38.40501	-96.0586
Bushong Cemetery	38.63636	-96.24322
Chicago Mound Cemetery	38.34789	-96.06149
Cottonwood Friends Cemetery	38.4128	-96.27276
Evergreen Cemetery	38.35695	-96.17964
Fairview Cemetery	38.20508	-96.09547
Forest Hill Cemetery	38.41209	-96.06047
Fowler Cemetery	38.39001	-96.10948
Frost Cemetery	38.55711	-96.20188
Fruitland Cemetery	38.50779	-96.33111
Goessel Cemetery	38.2539	-96.35277
Grandview Cemetery	38.38428	-96.35452
Greenwood Cemetery	38.35443	-96.20835
Hartford Cemetery	38.28974	-95.95277
Haworth Cemetery	38.38028	-96.31775
Ivy Cemetery	38.61537	-96.06023
Line Cemetery	38.17695	-96.23873
Maplewood Cemetery	38.42029	-96.20083
Maplewood Memorial Lawn Cemetery	38.42024	-96.20299
Maydale Cemetery	38.22911	-96.11849
Mennonite Cemetery	38.30366	-96.01671
Mount Calvary Cemetery	38.5279	-95.97827
Mount Hope Cemetery	38.3769	-95.97217
Phillips Cemetery	38.55779	-96.05166
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery	38.71737	-96.07408
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery	38.26029	-96.18166
Reading Cemetery	38.52029	-95.96971
Rosean Cemetery	38.5347	-96.14651
Sacred Heart Cemetery	38.39307	-96.14237
Saint Joseph Cemetery	38.26673	-96.16281
Saint Lawrence Cemetery	38.37728	-95.97064
Saint Mary's Cemetery	38.29564	-95.95058
Township Cemetery	38.51529	-96.24194
Union Cemetery	38.43764	-96.04287
Zion Cemetery	38.23281	-96.24761

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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