Sedgwick County, Kansas

administration
former Sedgwick County Courthouse, listed on NRHP No. 71000327
US state :	Kansas
Administrative headquarters :	Wichita
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 525 N Main Street Wichita, KS 67203-3731
Foundation :	1870
Area code :	001 316
Demographics
Residents :	498,365 (2010)
Population density :	192.6 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2614 km²
Water surface :	26 km²
map

Website : www.sedgwickcounty.org

Sedgwick County is a county in the state of Kansas in the United States . The county seat is Wichita .

geography

The county is located southeast of the geographic center of Kansas, about 50 km to the south from Oklahoma , and has an area of 2,614 square kilometers, of which 26 square kilometers are water. It is bordered by counties in a clockwise direction: Harvey County , Butler County , Cowley County , Sumner County , Kingman County, and Reno Counties .

history

John Sedgwick

The Sedgwick County Historical Museum , listed on the NRHP

Sedgwick County was formed in 1870. It was named after John Sedgwick , a major general of the Northern States in the American Civil War , who was killed on May 9th in the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia , which lasted from May 8 to 21, 1864 .

One of the first settlers in the area was JR Mead. He established a trading post on the site of today's Wichita and traded with the Indians for the next few years. In the spring of 1869 he brought his family to join him and officially lived here.

On November 12, 1874, the first county jail was completed. In the same year, several swarms of locusts destroyed the entire harvest. In 1880 the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad in the county was completed and began service. In the following years there were post offices in Afton, Blendon, Clarion, Clearwater, Coronado, Diana, Eldridge, El Paso, Fayette, Ferris, Good River, Germania, Greenwich, Haysville, Herald, Helen, Iowaville, Lamont, Marshall, Mount Hope, Magnolia , Ohio Center, Peotone, Ruby, Sunny Dale, St. Mark, Valley Center, Venice, Waco and Wichita opened.

123 buildings and sites in the county are on the National Register of Historic Places (as of August 30, 2017).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1870	1095	-
1880	18,753	1,612.6%
1890	43,626	132.6%
1900	44,037	0.9%
1910	73,095	66%
1920	92.234	26.2%
1930	136,330	47.8%
1940	143.311	5.1%
1950	222,290	55.1%
1960	343.231	54.4%
1970	350.694	2.2%
1980	366,531	4.5%
1990	403,662	10.1%
2000	452.869	12.2%
2010	498.365	10%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Sedgwick County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

As of the 2000 census , Sedgwick County had a population of 452,869. Of these, 6,278 people lived in collective accommodation, the other residents lived in 176,444 households and 117,688 families in Sedgwick County. The population density was 175 inhabitants per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 79.38 percent white, 9.13 percent African American, 1.11 percent Native American, 3.34 percent Asian, 0.06 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 4.17 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 2.81 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 8.04 percent of the population.

Of the 176,444 households, 34.4 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 51.7 percent were married couples living together, 10.9 percent were single mothers, and 33.3 percent were non-families. 28.2 percent of all households were single households and 8.7 percent had people aged 65 or over. The average household size was 2.53 and the average family size was 3.14.

28.2 percent of the population were under 18 years old. 9.5 percent between 18 and 24 years of age, 30.3 percent between 25 and 44 years of age, 20.6 percent between 45 and 64 years of age and 11.4 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 34 years. For every 100 females there were 97.8 males. For every 100 adult women aged 18 and over there were 95.2 men.

The median income for a household in the city is $ 42,485 , and the median income for a family is $ 51,645. Males had a median income of $ 37,770 versus $ 26,153 for females. The per capita income was $ 20,907. 7.0 percent of families and 9.5 percent of the population were below the poverty line.

Places in the county

Townships

Web links

Commons : Sedgwick 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: 485049. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).
↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 30, 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
^ Sedgwick County, Kansas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .

37.6025 -97.631388888889Coordinates: 37 ° 36 ′ N , 97 ° 38 ′ W

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

[2] GNIS-ID: 485049. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English).

[3] Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 30, 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] Sedgwick County, Kansas , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .