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Montgomery County, Kansas

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36historic places

—earliest paper

1867formed

31,486pop. 2020

39cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 36 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Independence, Coffeyville, Little River.

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 Montgomery titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

22 of 36 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

36 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Archeological Site Number 14MY1	Little River	Site	1982
Archeological Site Number 14MY1320	Independence	Site	1982
Archeological Site Number 14MY1385	Liberty	Site	1982
Archeological Site Number 14MY365	Independence	Site	1982
Ball, Charles M., House	Coffeyville	Building	2011
Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church	Coffeyville	Building	1995
Blakeslee Motor Company Building	Independence	Building	1989
Booth Hotel	Independence	Building	1983
Booth Theater	Independence	Building	1988
Brown Barn	Independence	Building	2009
Brown, W. P., Mansion	Coffeyville	Building	1976
Cedar Manor Farm	Fredonia	Building	2014
Cherryvale Carnegie Free Library	Cherryvale	Building	1987
Coffeyville Carnegie Public Library Building	Coffeyville	Building	1987
Condon National Bank	Coffeyville	Building	1973
Cook's Hotel	Independence	Building	2006
Dewlen-Spohnhauer Bridge	Independence	Site	1983
Eastep Site	Independence	Site	2013
Federal Building-US Post Office	Indpendence	Building	1988
First Congregational Church	Independence	Building	2014
Hotel Dale	Coffeyville	Building	2008
Independence Bowstring	Independence	Structure	1990
Independence Downtown Historic District	Independence	District	2006
Independence Junior High School	Independence	Building	2009
Independence Public Carnegie Library	Independence	Building	1988
Infinity Archeological Site	Independence	Site	1971
Inge, William, Boyhood Home	Independence	Building	2018
Memorial Hall	Independence	Building	2005
Midland Theater	Coffeyville	Building	2005
Onion Creek Bridge	Coffeyville	Structure	1990
Pennsylvania Avenue Rock Creek Bridge	Independence	Structure	1985
Prairie Oil & Gas Building	Independence	Building	2024
Terminal Building	Coffeyville	Building	1982
Union Implement and Hardware Building-Masonic Temple	Independence	Building	1988
Washington School	Independence	Building	2015
Wesley Chapel	Coffeyville	Building	2024

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Montgomery was formed in 1867 (1867-02-26) from Wilson.

MONTGOMERY created from WILSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
7,564	18,213	29,039	49,645	49,729	46,487	45,007	42,281	36,252	31,486

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

39 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 39 of 39 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
All Saints Cemetery	37.15414	-95.57599
Bethel Cemetery	37.27609	-95.64607
Calvary Cemetery	37.05536	-95.65128
Calvary Cemetery	36.9998	-95.62849
Calvary Cemetery	37.24831	-95.70507
Centennial Cemetery	37.22981	-95.54721
Elmwood Cemetery	37.02329	-95.61902
Fairview Cemetery	37.05386	-95.65389
Fairview Cemetery	37.27268	-95.53422
Farm Ridge Cemetery	37.35613	-95.80229
Fawn Creek Cemetery	37.06666	-95.80199
Harmony Cemetery	37.23265	-95.59514
Harrisonville Cemetery	37.1321	-95.81388
Havana Cemetery	37.09504	-95.94128
Highland Center Cemetery	37.209	-95.82843
Hiltz Cemetery	37.35503	-95.59396
Jefferson Cemetery	37.10363	-95.74737
Kalloch Cemetery	37.06835	-95.58678
Krone Cemetery	37.33024	-95.74946
Mount Hope Cemetery	37.24173	-95.70498
Oak Hill Cemetery	37.29083	-95.89303
Parker Cemetery	37.26309	-95.85728
Pioneer Cemetery	37.03923	-95.80065
Pratt Cemetery	37.23278	-95.65604
Quaker Cemetery	37.23942	-95.82403
Radical Cemetery	37.28864	-95.74162
Restlawn Memorial Park Cemetery	37.05151	-95.65017
Robbins Cemetery	37.03352	-95.71943
Rutland Cemetery	37.19665	-95.90117
Saint Andrew's Cemetery	37.25648	-95.66631
Saint Francis Xavier Cemetery	37.26318	-95.57552
Simpson Cemetery	37.32729	-95.81866
Star Center Cemetery	37.32034	-95.93137
Sunny Side Cemetery	37.01736	-95.93002
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery	37.02687	-95.83743
Union Cemetery	37.06326	-95.54128
White Cemetery	37.36744	-95.86403
Woodring Cemetery	37.2698	-95.9011
Zion Lutheran Cemetery	37.23201	-95.70498

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Corbin	37.25201	-95.55442

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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