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Rooks County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
2historic places
—earliest paper
1867formed
4,919pop. 2020
25cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 2002. Most listings are in or near Stockton, Damar.

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 Rooks titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

2 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Rooks County CourthouseStocktonBuilding2002
St. Joseph Catholic ChurchDamarBuilding2005

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Rooks was formed in 1867 (1867-02-26) from unknown / original county.

ROOKS created from Non-County Area 2 attached to RILEY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

11k8,1004,919188019201950196020002020
188019001920194019501960198020002020
8,1127,9609,9668,4979,0439,7347,0065,6854,919

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).

SiteTypeDist.
NICOPark unit25.5 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 25 of 25 listed
NameLatLon
Ash Rock Cemetery39.52483-99.08231
Aurora Cemetery39.27767-99.08475
Chalk Mound Cemetery39.32055-99.08571
Conger Cemetery39.19807-99.24843
Eureka Cemetery39.31371-99.45528
Green Mound Cemetery39.27905-99.51188
Hobart Cemetery39.38429-99.36213
Johnson Cemetery39.3492-99.19425
Mount Vernon Cemetery39.46592-99.41487
Old Stockton Cemetery39.45916-99.30526
Palco Cemetery39.26361-99.5677
Paradise Center Cemetery39.20484-99.20555
Plainville Cemetery39.22654-99.28738
Pleasantview Cemetery39.23376-99.51327
Saint Joseph Cemetery39.30453-99.60415
Saint Thomas Cemetery39.44457-99.27787
Shiloh Cemetery39.23499-99.14132
Slate Cemetery39.48788-99.5276
Spring Branch Cemetery39.51001-99.05842
Survey Cemetery39.37223-99.1337
Twin Mound Cemetery39.2853-99.23201
Webster Cemetery (historical)39.42001-99.42538
West Hope Cemetery39.50264-99.21113
Woodstown Cemetery39.43686-99.12765
Zurich Cemetery39.22733-99.43846
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
Webster39.40168-99.43594

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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