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Sherman County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- September 20, 1886
- Named after
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Seat
- Goodland
- Largest city
- Goodland
- Total
- 1,056 sq mi (2,740 km )
- Land
- 1,056 sq mi (2,740 km )
- Water
- 0.2 sq mi (0.52 km ) 0.02%
- Estimate 2025
- 5,763
- Density
- 5.6/sq mi (2.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- shermancountyks.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- William Tecumseh Sherman
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Goodland
- Capital
- Goodland
- Population
- 5927
- Area
- 2735
- Shares border with
- Thomas County
- Official website
- www.Sherman.KansasGov.com
- Image
- Sherman County, Kansas courthouse from W 1.JPG
- Households
- 2569
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- Commons category
- Sherman County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Sherman County, Kansas
- inception
- 1886-09-20
- different from
- Sherman County
- water as percent of area
- 0.02
- native label
- Sherman County
- per capita income
- 36495
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Encyclopedic overview
Sherman County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Goodland. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 5,927. Sherman County was created by the Legislature of 1873, and named after general William Sherman, a general during the American Civil War.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sherman County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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