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Wallace County, Kansas

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1868formed

1,512pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1972. Most listings are in or near Wallace, Weskan.

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 Wallace 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
Clark-Robidoux House	Wallace	Building	2001
Goose Creek Tipi Ring Site	Weskan	Site	1978
Pond Creek Station	Wallace	Building	1972

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Wallace was formed in 1868 (1868-03-11) from unknown / original county.

WALLACE created from Non-County Area 6.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
538	686	1,178	2,424	2,216	2,508	2,069	2,045	1,749	1,512

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Fairview Cemetery	39.12641	-101.86822
Fort Wallace Cemetery	38.90495	-101.5595
Fort Wallace Post Cemetery	38.91029	-101.58322
Sharon Springs Cemetery	38.91723	-101.75101
Stockholm Cemetery	38.72745	-101.93852
Weskan Cemetery	38.85796	-101.94631

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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