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Sheridan County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Named after
- Philip Sheridan
- Seat
- Hoxie
- Largest city
- Hoxie
- Total
- 896 sq mi (2,320 km )
- Land
- 896 sq mi (2,320 km )
- Water
- 0.3 sq mi (0.78 km ) 0.03%
- Estimate 2025
- 2,427
- Density
- 2.7/sq mi (1.0/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- County Website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Philip Sheridan
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Hoxie
- Capital
- Hoxie
- Population
- 2447
- Area
- 2322
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Thomas County
- Official website
- www.accesskansas.org/sheridan
- Image
- No. 56. The Buffalo Hunters' Home at Sheridan, Kas. (5568848867).jpg
- Households
- 1080
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- native label
- Sheridan County
- different from
- Sheridan County
- topic's main category
- Category:Sheridan County, Kansas
- Commons category
- Sheridan County, Kansas
- water as percent of area
- 0.03
- inception
- 1880-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Sheridan County, Kansas
- per capita income
- 39170
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Encyclopedic overview
Sheridan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Hoxie. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 2,447. The county was named in honor of Philip Sheridan, a Union general during the Civil War.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sheridan County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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