Chautauqua County, Kansas

County in Kansas, United States

Not to be confused with Chautauqua, Kansas.

County in Kansas

Chautauqua County

County

Downtown Sedan (2013)

Location within the U.S. state of Kansas

Kansas's location within the U.S.

Coordinates: 37°09′N 96°14′W﻿ / ﻿37.150°N 96.233°W﻿ / 37.150; -96.233Coordinates: 37°09′N 96°14′W﻿ / ﻿37.150°N 96.233°W﻿ / 37.150; -96.233
Country|  United States
State|  Kansas
Founded| March 25, 1875
Named for| Chautauqua County, New York
Seat| Sedan
Largest city| Sedan
Area

• Total| 645 sq mi (1,670 km2)
• Land| 639 sq mi (1,660 km2)
• Water| 5.9 sq mi (15 km2)  0.9%%
Population

(2020)[1]

• Total| 3,379
• Density| 5.3/sq mi (2.0/km2)
Time zone| UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)| UTC−5 (CDT)
Area code| 620
Congressional district| 4th
Website| chautauquacountyks.com

Chautauqua County (county code CQ) is a county located in Southeast Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 3,379.[1] Its county seat and most populous city is Sedan.[2] Chautauqua County is named for Chautauqua County, New York, the birthplace of Edward Jaquins, a Kansas politician who was instrumental in getting the county established.[3]

## Contents

* 1 History
* 1.1 Early history
* 1.2 19th century
* 2 Geography
* 2.1 Adjacent counties
* 2.2 Major highways
* 3 Demographics
* 4 Government
* 4.1 Presidential elections
* 4.2 Laws
* 5 Education
* 5.1 Unified school districts
* 6 Communities
* 6.1 Cities
* 6.2 Unincorporated communities
* 6.3 Ghost towns
* 6.4 Townships
* 7 See also
* 8 References
* 9 Further reading
* 10 External links

## History

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### Early history

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See also: History of Kansas

For many millennia, the Great Plains of North America was inhabited by nomadic Native Americans. The name is non-native, but is derived from the now-extinct Native Erie language, spoken near the Great Lakes. From the 16th century to 18th century, the Kingdom of France claimed ownership of large parts of North America. In 1762, after the French and Indian War, France secretly ceded New France to Spain, per the Treaty of Fontainebleau.

### 19th century

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In 1802, Spain returned most of the land to France, but keeping title to about 7,500 square miles. In 1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase for 2.83 cents per acre.

In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. Chautauqua County was created by an act of the Kansas legislature on June 1, 1875, by the division of Howard County into Elk County (the northern half) and Chautauqua County (the southern half). At the time of its creation, the county's population was about 7,400.[citation needed]

## Geography

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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 645 square miles (1,670 km2), of which 639 square miles (1,660 km2) is land and 5.9 square miles (15 km2) (0.9%) is water.[4]

### Adjacent counties

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* Elk County (north)
* Montgomery County (east)
* Washington County, Oklahoma (southeast)
* Osage County, Oklahoma (south)
* Cowley County (west)

### Major highways

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Sources: National Atlas,[5] U.S. Census Bureau[6]

* U.S. Route 166
* Kansas Highway 38
* Kansas Highway 99

## Demographics

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Historical population

Census | Pop. |  | %±
1880| 11,072| | —
1890| 12,297| | 11.1%
1900| 11,804| | −4.0%
1910| 11,429| | −3.2%
1920| 11,598| | 1.5%
1930| 10,352| | −10.7%
1940| 9,233| | −10.8%
1950| 7,376| | −20.1%
1960| 5,956| | −19.3%
1970| 4,642| | −22.1%
1980| 5,016| | 8.1%
1990| 4,407| | −12.1%
2000| 4,359| | −1.1%
2010| 3,669| | −15.8%
2020| 3,379| | −7.9%
U.S. Decennial Census[7]
1790-1960[8] 1900-1990[9]
1990-2000[10] 2010-2020[1]
Population pyramid

As of the 2000 census,[11] there were 4,359 people, 1,796 households, and 1,235 families residing in the county. The population density was 7 people per square mile (3/km2). There were 2,169 housing units at an average density of 3 per square mile (1/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 93.83% White, 0.30% Black or African American, 3.58% Native American, 0.07% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.34% from other races, and 1.84% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.35% of the population.

There were 1,796 households, out of which 26.20% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.30% were married couples living together, 7.90% had a female householder with no husband present, and 31.20% were non-families. 29.40% of all households were made up of individuals, and 16.40% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.34 and the average family size was 2.87.

In the county, the population was spread out, with 23.40% under the age of 18, 6.10% from 18 to 24, 20.90% from 25 to 44, 25.20% from 45 to 64, and 24.30% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45 years. For every 100 females there were 93.60 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.20 males.

The median income for a household in the county was $28,717, and the median income for a family was $33,871. Males had a median income of $25,083 versus $21,346 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,280. About 9.00% of families and 12.20% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.80% of those under age 18 and 10.60% of those age 65 or over.

## Government

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### Presidential elections

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United States presidential election results for Chautauqua County, Kansas[12] Year  | Republican | Democratic | Third party

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No. | % | No. | % | No. | %
2020 | 1,402  | 85.28% | 212  | 12.90%  | 30  | 1.82%
2016 | 1,236  | 83.46% | 197  | 13.30%  | 48  | 3.24%
2012 | 1,304  | 80.00% | 280  | 17.18%  | 46  | 2.82%
2008 | 1,418  | 76.57% | 401  | 21.65%  | 33  | 1.78%
2004 | 1,529  | 78.01% | 404  | 20.61%  | 27  | 1.38%
2000 | 1,347  | 71.65% | 443  | 23.56%  | 90  | 4.79%
1996 | 1,142  | 58.27% | 568  | 28.98%  | 250  | 12.76%
1992 | 853  | 41.15% | 598  | 28.85%  | 622  | 30.00%
1988 | 1,247  | 64.48% | 661  | 34.18%  | 26  | 1.34%
1984 | 1,688  | 76.55% | 497  | 22.54%  | 20  | 0.91%
1980 | 1,566  | 71.60% | 543  | 24.83%  | 78  | 3.57%
1976 | 1,159  | 55.77% | 866  | 41.67%  | 53  | 2.55%
1972 | 1,546  | 78.00% | 378  | 19.07%  | 58  | 2.93%
1968 | 1,537  | 65.52% | 478  | 20.38%  | 331  | 14.11%
1964 | 1,463  | 55.42% | 1,163  | 44.05%  | 14  | 0.53%
1960 | 2,160  | 70.54% | 885  | 28.90%  | 17  | 0.56%
1956 | 2,180  | 70.85% | 887  | 28.83%  | 10  | 0.32%
1952 | 2,542  | 74.76% | 837  | 24.62%  | 21  | 0.62%
1948 | 1,925  | 59.34% | 1,261  | 38.87%  | 58  | 1.79%
1944 | 2,305  | 67.38% | 1,106  | 32.33%  | 10  | 0.29%
1940 | 2,888  | 62.70% | 1,679  | 36.45%  | 39  | 0.85%
1936 | 2,506  | 54.49% | 2,080  | 45.23%  | 13  | 0.28%
1932 | 1,893  | 43.42%  | 2,263  | 51.90% | 204  | 4.68%
1928 | 3,303  | 75.97% | 944  | 21.71%  | 101  | 2.32%
1924 | 2,439  | 59.99% | 1,087  | 26.73%  | 540  | 13.28%
1920 | 2,539  | 68.58% | 936  | 25.28%  | 227  | 6.13%
1916 | 2,085  | 49.69% | 1,737  | 41.40%  | 374  | 8.91%
1912 | 818  | 31.35% | 752  | 28.82%  | 1,039  | 39.82%
1908 | 1,689  | 60.19% | 958  | 34.14%  | 159  | 5.67%
1904 | 2,033  | 67.47% | 681  | 22.60%  | 299  | 9.92%
1900 | 1,618  | 55.47% | 1,280  | 43.88%  | 19  | 0.65%
1896 | 1,359  | 50.92% | 1,293  | 48.45%  | 17  | 0.64%
1892 | 1,408  | 52.03% | 0  | 0.00%  | 1,298  | 47.97%
1888 | 1,590  | 57.57% | 694  | 25.13%  | 478  | 17.31%

Chautauqua is an overwhelmingly Republican county. The only Republican to ever lose the county has been Herbert Hoover during his landslide 1932 election defeat when he carried fewer than fifty counties west of the Mississippi. Apart from never-Democratic, historically Yankee Doniphan County, it was the only Kansas county to give incumbent President William Howard Taft a plurality in 1912. The last Democrat to pass thirty percent of the county's vote was Michael Dukakis in 1988, and in 2016 Hillary Clinton received merely thirteen percent.

### Laws

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Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Chautauqua County remained a prohibition, or "dry", county, until 2008, when a county wide ballot measure was approved to allow individual liquor sales with a 30 percent food requirement.[13]

## Education

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### Unified school districts

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* Cedar Vale USD 285
* Sedan USD 286

## Communities

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2005 KDOT Map of Chautauqua County (map legend)

### Cities

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* Cedar Vale
* Chautauqua
* Elgin
* Niotaze
* Peru
* Sedan

### Unincorporated communities

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* Cloverdale
* Grafton
* Hale
* Hewins
* Jonesburg (originally spelled Jonesburgh)[14]
* Lowe (Gibbs)
* Monett
* Rogers
* Wauneta

### Ghost towns

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* Boston[15]
* Layton[16]
* Leeds
* Matanzas[17]
* Moore
* Osro

### Townships

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Chautauqua County is divided into twelve townships. None of the cities within the county are considered governmentally independent, and all figures for the townships include those of the cities. In the following table, the population center is the largest city (or cities) included in that township's population total, if it is of a significant size.

Township | FIPS | Population
center  | Population | Population
density
/km2 (/sq mi) | Land area
km2 (sq mi) | Water area
km2 (sq mi) | Water %  | Geographic coordinates

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Belleville | 05575 |  | 675 | 4 (11) | 155 (60) | 0 (0) | 0.14% | 37°3′50″N 96°7′48″W﻿ / ﻿37.06389°N 96.13000°W﻿ / 37.06389; -96.13000
Caneyville | 10425 |  | 88 | 1 (2) | 144 (55) | 1 (0) | 0.38% | 37°15′23″N 96°27′27″W﻿ / ﻿37.25639°N 96.45750°W﻿ / 37.25639; -96.45750
Center | 11575 |  | 75 | 1 (1) | 144 (56) | 1 (0) | 0.80% | 37°15′28″N 96°18′31″W﻿ / ﻿37.25778°N 96.30861°W﻿ / 37.25778; -96.30861
Harrison | 30275 |  | 114 | 1 (2) | 142 (55) | 0 (0) | 0.14% | 37°4′3″N 96°26′32″W﻿ / ﻿37.06750°N 96.44222°W﻿ / 37.06750; -96.44222
Hendricks | 31300 |  | 179 | 1 (3) | 142 (55) | 0 (0) | 0.05% | 37°1′12″N 96°18′42″W﻿ / ﻿37.02000°N 96.31167°W﻿ / 37.02000; -96.31167
Jefferson | 35125 | Cedar Vale | 834 | 6 (15) | 144 (56) | 1 (0) | 0.45% | 37°6′45″N 96°29′12″W﻿ / ﻿37.11250°N 96.48667°W﻿ / 37.11250; -96.48667
Lafayette | 37650 |  | 65 | 0 (1) | 154 (59) | 2 (1) | 1.40% | 37°15′36″N 96°10′20″W﻿ / ﻿37.26000°N 96.17222°W﻿ / 37.26000; -96.17222
Little Caney | 41525 |  | 353 | 3 (8) | 117 (45) | 0 (0) | 0.31% | 37°3′51″N 96°1′5″W﻿ / ﻿37.06417°N 96.01806°W﻿ / 37.06417; -96.01806
Salt Creek | 62775 |  | 123 | 1 (3) | 127 (49) | 0 (0) | 0.34% | 37°15′13″N 96°1′34″W﻿ / ﻿37.25361°N 96.02611°W﻿ / 37.25361; -96.02611
Sedan | 63775 | Sedan | 1,660 | 13 (34) | 128 (49) | 1 (0) | 0.65% | 37°7′50″N 96°11′6″W﻿ / ﻿37.13056°N 96.18500°W﻿ / 37.13056; -96.18500
Summit | 69025 |  | 106 | 1 (2) | 144 (56) | 1 (0) | 0.40% | 37°8′17″N 96°19′53″W﻿ / ﻿37.13806°N 96.33139°W﻿ / 37.13806; -96.33139
Washington | 75550 |  | 87 | 1 (2) | 121 (47) | 1 (0) | 0.71% | 37°7′41″N 96°0′52″W﻿ / ﻿37.12806°N 96.01444°W﻿ / 37.12806; -96.01444
Sources: "Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files". U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division. Archived from the original on August 2, 2002.

## See also

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Community information for Kansas

* Kansas locations by per capita income
* List of counties in Kansas
* List of townships in Kansas
* List of cities in Kansas
* List of unincorporated communities in Kansas
* List of ghost towns in Kansas

Education information for Kansas

* List of colleges and universities in Kansas
* List of high schools in Kansas
* List of unified school districts in Kansas

Historical information for Kansas

* List of museums in Kansas
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Kansas

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## References

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1. ^ a b c "QuickFacts; Chautauqua County, Kansas; Population, Census, 2020 & 2010". United States Census Bureau. Archived from the original on August 15, 2021. Retrieved August 15, 2021.
2. ^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
3. ^ "Chautauqua County, Kansas". Kansas Historical Society. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
4. ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. February 12, 2011. Retrieved April 23, 2011.
5. ^ National Atlas Archived December 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
6. ^ "U.S. Census Bureau TIGER shape files". Archived from the original on May 23, 2017. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
7. ^ "U.S. Decennial Census". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
8. ^ "Historical Census Browser". University of Virginia Library. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
9. ^ "Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
10. ^ "Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
11. ^ "U.S. Census website". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
12. ^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections".
13. ^ "Map of Wet and Dry Counties". Alcoholic Beverage Control, Kansas Department of Revenue. November 2006. Archived from the original on October 8, 2007. Retrieved December 26, 2007.
14. ^ "Kansas Post Offices, 1828-1961 (archived)". Kansas Historical Society. Archived from the original on October 9, 2013. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
15. ^ Rydjord, John (1972). Kansas Place-Names. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. pp. 250–251. ISBN 0-8061-0994-7.
16. ^ Rydjord, John (1972). Kansas Place-Names. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. p. 493\. ISBN 0-8061-0994-7.
17. ^ Rydjord, John (1972). Kansas Place-Names. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma. p. 96\. ISBN 0-8061-0994-7.

## Further reading

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See also: List of books about Kansas, including historical information about its counties and cities

* Handbook of Elk and Chautauqua Counties, Kansas; C.S. Burch Publishing Co; 24 pages; 1886.
* Standard Atlas of Chautauqua County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 66 pages; 1921.
* Standard Atlas of Chautauqua County, Kansas; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 32 pages; 1903.

## External links

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County

* Chautauqua County - Official
* Chautauqua County - Directory of Public Officials

Maps

* Chautauqua County Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
* Kansas Highway Maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
* Kansas Railroad Maps: Current, 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

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County seat: Sedan

Cities|

* Cedar Vale
* Chautauqua
* Elgin
* Niotaze
* Peru
* Sedan

Map of Kansas highlighting Chautauqua County

Unincorporated
communities|

* Cloverdale
* Grafton
* Hale
* Hewins
* Monett
* Rogers
* Wauneta

Ghost towns|

* Osro

Townships|

* Belleville
* Caneyville
* Center
* Harrison
* Hendricks
* Jefferson
* Lafayette
* Little Caney
* Salt Creek
* Sedan
* Summit
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