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Decatur County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- March 20, 1873
- Named after
- Stephen Decatur, Jr.
- Seat
- Oberlin
- Largest city
- Oberlin
- Total
- 894 sq mi (2,320 km )
- Land
- 894 sq mi (2,320 km )
- Water
- 0.6 sq mi (1.6 km ) 0.07%
- Estimate 2025
- 2,716
- Density
- 3.1/sq mi (1.2/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- https://www.dccoks.org/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Stephen Decatur
- Official name
- Decatur County
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Oberlin
- Capital
- Oberlin
- Population
- 2764
- Area
- 2316
- Elevation
- 814
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Rawlins County
- Official website
- www.oberlinks.com
- Image
- Bank of Oberlin from SE 1.JPG
- Households
- 1414
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- different from
- Decatur County
- Commons category
- Decatur County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Decatur County, Kansas
- inception
- 1873-03-20
- water as percent of area
- 0.07
- native label
- Decatur County
- per capita income
- 29659
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Encyclopedic overview
Decatur County is a county located in Northwest Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Oberlin. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 2,764. The county was named in honor of Stephen Decatur, Jr., a commodore in the United States Navy who served during both Barbary Wars in North Africa, the Quasi-War with France, and the War of 1812 with Britain.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Decatur County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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