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Ellis County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Named after
- George Ellis
- Seat
- Hays
- Largest city
- Hays
- Total
- 900 sq mi (2,300 km )
- Land
- 899 sq mi (2,330 km )
- Water
- 0.5 sq mi (1.3 km ) 0.05%
- Estimate 2025
- 29,075
- Density
- 32.2/sq mi (12.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- ellisco.net
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Hays
- Capital
- Hays
- Population
- 28934
- Area
- 2332
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Trego County
- Official website
- www.EllisCo.net
- Image
- Ellis county courthouse kansas.jpg
- Households
- 11686
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Ellis County, Kansas
- different from
- Ellis County
- water as percent of area
- 0.05
- native label
- Ellis County
- Commons category
- Ellis County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Ellis County, Kansas
- inception
- 1867-02-26
- per capita income
- 30625
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ellis County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Hays. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 28,934. The county was named for George Ellis, a first lieutenant of the Twelfth Kansas Infantry. Ellis County is the official German Capital of Kansas. German immigrants settled in Hays, Ellis, Victoria, and nearby villages in the 1870s and 1880s.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ellis County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
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