This is a listing of counties

County (United States)

In the United States, a county is a geographic subdivision of a state , usually assigned some governmental authority. The term "county" is used in 48 of the 50 states; Louisiana is divided into parishes and Alaska into boroughs. Parishes and boroughs are called "county-equivalents" by the U.S...

 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

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Kansas has 105 counties, the sixth-highest total of any state. Every license plate issued by the state contains the abbreviation for the county in which its vehicle is registered. No Kansas county has two words in its name. Wyandotte County

Wyandotte County, Kansas

Wyandotte County is a county located in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States. The county's population was 157,505 for the 2010 census. Its county seat and most populous city is Kansas City with which it shares a unified government...

 and the city of Kansas City

Kansas City, Kansas

Kansas City is the third-largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. It is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The city is part of a consolidated city-county government known as the "Unified...

 operate as a unified government, and Greeley County

Greeley County, Kansas

Greeley County is a county located in West Central Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 1,247, which is the lowest in Kansas. Its county seat and largest town is Tribune...

 and the city of Tribune

Tribune, Kansas

Tribune is a city in and the county seat of Greeley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 741.-History:The city is named after the New York Tribune, of which Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York was the editor....

 are in the process of converting to a similar system.

Alphabetical list

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Former counties of Kansas

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County	Dates	| Notes	| Source
Washington	1855–1857	One of 36 Original Counties.
Seward	1855-67	One of the Original 36 Counties. Formerly part of Godfroy. Dissolved into Greenwood and Howard Counties.
Hunter	1855-64	One of the Original 36 Counties. Dissolved into Butler County.
Irving	1860-4	Formed from Hunter County. Dissolved into Butler County.
Otoe	1860-4	Formed from Unorganized Area and dissolved into Butler County.
Shirley	1860-5	Formed from Unorganized Area and dissolved into Washington County.
Peketon	1860-5	Formed from Unorganized Area and dissolved back into Unorganized Area.
Madison	1855-61	One of the Original 36 Counties. Dissolved into Breckenridge and Greenwood.
Howard	1867-75	Formed from Seward and Butler Counties. Dissolved into Chautauqua and Elk Counties.
Arapahoe	1873-83	Formed from Unorganized Area. Dissolved into Finney County.
Buffalo	1873-81	Formed from Unorganized Area. Dissolved into Gray County.
Kansas	1873-83	Formed from Unorganized Area. Dissolved into Seward County.
Sequoyah	1873-83	Formed from Unorganized Area. Dissolved into Finney County.
Garfield	1887-93	Formed from Finney and Hodgeman Counties and merged into Finney County.
Billings	1873–1874	Created from Norton County and returned to Norton County.

See also

• Kansas counties ranked by per capita income
• Kansas license plate county codes
  Kansas license plate county codes
  The U.S. state of Kansas first required its residents to register their vehicles and display license plates in 1910.-Passenger plates 1965 to present:-County coding:...
  
  
• Kansas census statistical areas
  Kansas census statistical areas
  The United States Census Bureau has defined 2 Combined Statistical Areas , 5 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , and 15 Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the State of Kansas. The following table describes these areas with the following information:*The name of the Combined Statistical Area , if...
  
  

External links

• The Establishment of Counties in Kansas—Maps and text transcribed from Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society, 1903-1904.