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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Ellsworth
- Founded
- 1860s
- Named after
- Fort Ellsworth
- Type
- Mayor–Council
- Mayor
- Dan Finnegan
- Total
- 2.39 sq mi (6.20 km )
- Land
- 2.39 sq mi (6.20 km )
- Water
- 0 sq mi (0.00 km )
- Elevation
- 1,545 ft (471 m)
- Density
- 1,280/sq mi (495/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Fips code
- 20-20500
- Website
- ellsworthks.net
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Ellsworth County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 3,066. Known as a cow town in the 1870s, when the Kansas Pacific Railroad operated a stockyard here for shipping cattle to eastern markets. In the 21st century, Ellsworth is the trading center of the rural county.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ellsworth” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.