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Meade County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

4,055pop. 2020

15cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 2009. Most listings are in or near Fowler, Meade.

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 Meade titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Dalton Gang Hideout and Museum	Meade	District	2015
Fowler Swimming Pool and Bathhouse	Fowler	Building	2009
Hotel Bunyan	Fowler	Building	2025

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

MEADE created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
296	1,581	5,542	5,522	5,710	5,505	4,788	4,631	4,055

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

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

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Atwater Cemetery	37.14083	-100.45032
Butler Cemetery	37.09036	-100.1295
Countryside Bible Church Cemetery	37.16871	-100.27056
Elsie Chapel Cemetery	37.05408	-100.3779
Fowler Cemetery	37.37364	-100.20136
Graceland Cemetery	37.28301	-100.31902
Kleine Gemeinde Cemetery	37.12515	-100.21647
Lockhart Cemetery	37.34324	-100.31788
Lutheran Cemetery	37.0964	-100.3446
McCauley Cemetery	37.46083	-100.21586
Mertilla Cemetery	37.395	-100.56127
Plains Cemetery	37.2585	-100.582
Seward Cemetery	37.19126	-100.4346
West Glendale Cemetery	37.11944	-100.57897
Wilburn Cemetery	37.47435	-100.12671

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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