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Barber County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- February 26, 1867
- Named after
- Thomas W. Barber
- Seat
- Medicine Lodge
- Largest city
- Medicine Lodge
- Total
- 1,136 sq mi (2,940 km )
- Land
- 1,134 sq mi (2,940 km )
- Water
- 2.1 sq mi (5.4 km ) 0.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 4,083
- Density
- 3.728/sq mi (1.440/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- barber.ks.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Medicine Lodge
- Capital
- Medicine Lodge
- Population
- 4228
- Area
- 2943
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Kiowa County
- Official website
- BarberCounty.net
- Image
- Carry Nation house and Stockade Museum from N 1.jpg
- Households
- 1931
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- water as percent of area
- 0.2
- native label
- Barber County
- Commons category
- Barber County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Barber County, Kansas
- inception
- 1867-02-26
- different from
- Barber
- per capita income
- 28934
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Barber County, Kansas
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Barber County is a county located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Medicine Lodge. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 4,228. The county was named for Thomas Barber, an abolitionist who was killed in Douglas County in 1855 during the Wakarusa War.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barber County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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