Dickinson County

Also known as Dickinson County, Kansas, Dickinson County, KS

county in Kansas, United States

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Kansas
Founded: February 20, 1857
Named after: Daniel S. Dickinson
Seat: Abilene
Largest city: Abilene
Total: 852 sq mi (2,210 km )
Land: 847 sq mi (2,190 km )
Water: 4.9 sq mi (13 km ) 0.6%
Estimate 2025: 18,637
Density: 21.7/sq mi (8.4/km )
Time zone: UTC−6 ( Central )
Summer dst: UTC−5 ( CDT )
Congressional district: 1st
Website: DkCoKS.org

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Wikidata facts

Named after: Daniel S. Dickinson
Country: United States
Located in: Kansas
Contains: Abilene
Capital: Abilene
Population: 18402
Area: 2207
Time zone: Central Time Zone
Shares border with: Ottawa County
Official website: www.DkCoKS.org
Image: DickinsonCoCHAbileneKS.JPG
Households: 7933

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Commons category: Dickinson County, Kansas
topic's main category: Category:Dickinson County, Kansas
inception: 1857-02-20
different from: Dickson County
water as percent of area: 0.6
native label: Dickinson County
per capita income: 31153

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Encyclopedic overview

Dickinson County is a county in Central Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Abilene. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 18,402. The county was named in honor of Daniel Dickinson, a U.S. Senator from New York that was a Kansas statehood advocate.

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dickinson County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.