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Pawnee County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

9historic places

—earliest paper

1867formed

6,253pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 9 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Larned, Garfield, Rozel.

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 Pawnee titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 9 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

9 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Babbitt-Doerr House	Larned	Building	1995
Coon Creek Crossing on the Santa Fe Trail (Wet Route)	Garfield	Site	2013
Fort Larned National Historic Site NHL	Larned	District	1966
JG Edwards Building	Larned	Building	2025
Lewis Site	Larned	Site	1976
Ooten House	Larned	Building	2001
Patterson House	Larned	Building	2001
Pawnee Fork Crossing (Santa Fe Trail Dry Route) and Boyd's Ranch Site	Larned	Site	2013
Township Line Bridge	Rozel	Structure	1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

PAWNEE created from MARION.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
179	5,396	5,084	9,323	10,300	11,041	10,254	8,065	7,233	6,253

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.
fols	Park unit	1.7 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Ash Valley Cemetery	38.29071	-99.21713
Browns Grove Cemetery	38.17351	-99.533
Fertig Cemetery	38.14593	-98.94951
Garfield Cemetery	38.07364	-99.26701
Larned Cemetery	38.18453	-99.13401
Pleasant Valley Cemetery	38.07182	-99.09611
Point View Cemetery	38.13046	-98.91321
Rozel Cemetery	38.20412	-99.40535

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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