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Meade County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- March 20, 1873
- Named after
- George G. Meade
- Seat
- Meade
- Largest city
- Meade
- Total
- 979 sq mi (2,540 km )
- Land
- 978 sq mi (2,530 km )
- Water
- 1.3 sq mi (3.4 km ) 0.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 3,852
- Density
- 4.15/sq mi (1.60/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- County website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- George Meade
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Meade
- Capital
- Meade
- Population
- 4055
- Area
- 2537
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Seward County
- Official website
- www.MeadeCo.org
- Image
- US-KS-Meade-DaltonGangHideout-2006.01.10-001.jpeg
- Households
- 1715
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- different from
- Meade County
- water as percent of area
- 0.1
- native label
- Meade County
- Commons category
- Meade County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Meade County, Kansas
- inception
- 1873-03-20
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Meade County, Kansas
- per capita income
- 30774
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Encyclopedic overview
Meade County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and largest city is Meade. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 4,055. The county was created in 1873 and named in honor of George Meade, a Union general during the Civil War.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meade County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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