Cheyenne County, Kansas

administration
The Cheyenne County Courthouse in St. Francis, listed on NRHP No. 02000391
US state :	Kansas
Administrative headquarters :	St. Francis
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 985 Saint Francis, KS 67756-0985
Foundation :	March 6, 1873
Made up from:	Original County
Area code :	001 785
Demographics
Residents :	2726 (2010)
Population density :	1 inhabitant / km ²
geography
Total area :	2644 km²
Water surface :	2 km²
map

Website : www.cheyennecounty.org

Cheyenne County is a county in the state of Kansas in the United States . The county seat is St. Francis .

geography

The county is located in the extreme northwest of Kansas, borders Nebraska to the north and Colorado to the west and has an area of 2,644 square kilometers, of which two square kilometers are water. In Kansas, it is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Rawlins County and Sherman Counties .

history

Cheyenne County was formed as the original Free Territory county on March 6, 1873. It was named after the Cheyenne Indian people .

Three of the county's structures and sites are on the National Register of Historic Places .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	37	-
1890	4401	11,794.6%
1900	2640	-40%
1910	4248	60.9%
1920	5587	31.5%
1930	6948	24.4%
1940	6221	-10.5%
1950	5668	-8.9%
1960	4708	-16.9%
1970	4256	-9.6%
1980	3678	-13.6%
1990	3243	-11.8%
2000	3165	-2.4%
2010	2726	-13.9%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Cheyenne County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

According to the 2000 census , Cheyenne County had 3,165 people in 1,360 households and 919 families in Cheyenne County. The population density was 1 person per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 97.91 percent white, 0.13 percent African American, 0.09 percent Native American, 0.32 percent Asian, 0.03 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 0.98 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.54 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.59 percent of the population.

Of the 1,360 households, 27.6 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 60.1 percent were married couples living together, 5.1 percent were single mothers, and 32.4 percent were non-families. 30.8 percent of all households were single households and 17.3 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.85 people.

23.8 percent of the population were under 18 years old. 5.1 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 22.7 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 21.8 percent between 45 and 64 years of age, and 26.6 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 44 years. For every 100 females there were 97.3 males. For every 100 adult women aged 18 and over there were 92.4 men.

The median income for a household in the city was $ 30,599 , and the median income for a family was $ 34,816. Males had a median income of $ 24,976 versus $ 19,569 for females. The per capita income was $ 17,862. 7.4 percent of families and 9.4 percent of the population were below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Townships

Web links

Commons : Cheyenne County (Kansas) - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011
↑ GNIS-ID: 484981. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 27, 2017.
↑ US Census Bureau - Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved March 15, 2011
↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 17, 2011
↑ Extract from census.gov (2000 + 2010). Accessed April 2, 2012
^ Cheyenne County, Kansas , 2000 census datasheet at factfinder.census.gov .

39.618611111111 -101.90944444444Coordinates: 39 ° 37 ′ N , 101 ° 55 ′ W

[1] Extract from the National Register of Historic Places . Retrieved March 13, 2011

[2] GNIS-ID: 484981. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).

[3] Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 27, 2017.

[4] US Census Bureau - Census of Population and Housing . Retrieved March 15, 2011

[5] Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 17, 2011

[6] Extract from census.gov (2000 + 2010). Accessed April 2, 2012

[7] Cheyenne County, Kansas , 2000 census datasheet at factfinder.census.gov .