Seward County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- March 20, 1873
- Named after
- William H. Seward
- Seat
- Liberal
- Largest city
- Liberal
- Total
- 640 sq mi (1,700 km )
- Land
- 639 sq mi (1,660 km )
- Water
- 1.0 sq mi (2.6 km ) 0.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 21,073
- Density
- 34.4/sq mi (13.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- SewardCountyKS.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- William H. Seward
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Liberal
- Capital
- Liberal
- Population
- 21964
- Area
- 1659
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Stevens County
- Official website
- SewardCountyKS.org
- Image
- Seward County, KS, Courthouse IMG 5985.JPG
- Households
- 7183
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- native label
- Seward County
- water as percent of area
- 0.2
- Commons category
- Seward County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Seward County, Kansas
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Seward County, Kansas
- different from
- Seward County
- inception
- 1873-03-20
- per capita income
- 21434
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Encyclopedic overview
Seward County is a county of the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and largest city is Liberal. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 21,964. The county was formed on March 20, 1873, and named after William Seward, a politician and Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Seward County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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