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Lane County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- March 20, 1873
- Named after
- James H. Lane
- Seat
- Dighton
- Largest city
- Dighton
- Total
- 718 sq mi (1,860 km )
- Land
- 717 sq mi (1,860 km )
- Water
- 0.2 sq mi (0.52 km ) 0.03%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,508
- Density
- 2.2/sq mi (0.85/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- lanecountyks.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- James Henry Lane
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Dighton
- Capital
- Dighton
- Population
- 1574
- Area
- 1858
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Gove County
- Official website
- www.lanecountyks.org
- Image
- Lane County, Kansas courthouse from SW 1.JPG
- Households
- 737
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- Commons category
- Lane County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Lane County, Kansas
- inception
- 1873-03-20
- different from
- Lane County
- water as percent of area
- 0.03
- native label
- Lane County
- per capita income
- 28775
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Encyclopedic overview
Lane County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Dighton, the only incorporated city in the county. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 1,574, making it the third-least populous county in Kansas. The county was named after James Lane, a leader of the Jayhawker abolitionist movement who served as one of the first U.S. senators from Kansas.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lane County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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