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Butler County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- August 25, 1855
- Named after
- Andrew Pickens Butler
- Seat
- El Dorado
- Largest city
- Andover
- Total
- 1,447 sq mi (3,750 km )
- Land
- 1,430 sq mi (3,700 km )
- Water
- 17 sq mi (44 km ) 1.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 69,484
- Density
- 47.1/sq mi (18.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 4th
- Website
- bucoks.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Andrew Butler
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- El Dorado
- Capital
- El Dorado
- Population
- 67380
- Area
- 3746
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Sedgwick County
- Official website
- www.bucoks.com
- Image
- El Dorado Courthouse, Butler County, Kansas.jpg
- Households
- 24833
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- Commons category
- Butler County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Butler County, Kansas
- inception
- 1855-08-30
- different from
- Butler County
- water as percent of area
- 1.2
- native label
- Butler County
- per capita income
- 30689
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Encyclopedic overview
Butler County is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas and is the largest county in the state by total area. Its county seat is El Dorado and its most populous city is Andover. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 67,380. The county was named for Andrew Butler, a U.S. Senator from South Carolina who coauthored the Kansas–Nebraska Act.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Butler County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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