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Bourbon County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- August 25, 1855
- Named after
- Bourbon County, Kentucky
- Seat
- Fort Scott
- Largest city
- Fort Scott
- Total
- 639 sq mi (1,660 km )
- Land
- 635 sq mi (1,640 km )
- Water
- 3.6 sq mi (9.3 km ) 0.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 14,319
- Density
- 22.6/sq mi (8.73/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- BourbonCountyKS.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Bourbon County
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Fort Scott
- Capital
- Fort Scott
- Population
- 14360
- Area
- 1655
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Neosho County
- Headquarters
- Fort Scott
- Official website
- BourbonCountyKS.org
- Image
- Bourbon County Courthouse - Fort Scott Kansas 10-10-2016.jpg
- Households
- 5921
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- inception
- 1855-08-30
- Commons category
- Bourbon County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Bourbon County, Kansas
- different from
- Bourbon County
- water as percent of area
- 0.6
- native label
- Bourbon County
- per capita income
- 24198
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Bourbon County, Kansas
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Encyclopedic overview
Bourbon County is a county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Fort Scott. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 14,360. The county was named after Bourbon County, Kentucky, the former home of many early settlers.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bourbon County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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