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Sheridan County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

2historic places

—earliest paper

1873formed

2,447pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 2 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1983. Most listings are in or near Studley, Hoxie.

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 Sheridan 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

Property	City	Type	Listed
Pratt, John Fenton, Ranch	Studley	Building	1983
Shafer Barn	Hoxie	Building	2009

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

SHERIDAN created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,567	3,819	5,484	5,312	4,607	4,267	3,544	2,813	2,447

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

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

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adell Cemetery	39.53874	-100.33873
Bethel Christian Cemetery	39.23312	-100.20519
Bow Creek Cemetery	39.42257	-100.25702
Hoxie Cemetery	39.37324	-100.44313
Immanuel Cemetery	39.43407	-100.47937
Lucerne Cemetery	39.49515	-100.21301
Mount Pleasant Cemetery	39.25487	-100.16393
Saint Francis Cemetery	39.35454	-100.46005
Saint John Cemetery	39.19089	-100.68612
Saint Martins Cemetery	39.33929	-100.5909
Selden Cemetery	39.53806	-100.55459
Studley Cemetery	39.35693	-100.16308

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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