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Thomas County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- October 8, 1885
- Named after
- George Henry Thomas
- Seat
- Colby
- Largest city
- Colby
- Total
- 1,075 sq mi (2,780 km )
- Land
- 1,075 sq mi (2,780 km )
- Water
- 0.1 sq mi (0.26 km ) 0.01%
- Estimate 2025
- 7,725
- Density
- 7.4/sq mi (2.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- thomascountyks.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- George Henry Thomas
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Colby
- Capital
- Colby
- Population
- 7930
- Area
- 2784
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Sherman County
- Official website
- ThomasCountyKS.com
- Image
- Thomas County Courthouse Colby Kansas 5-7-2014.jpg
- Households
- 3294
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- Commons category
- Thomas County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Thomas County, Kansas
- native label
- Thomas County
- inception
- 1885-10-08
- different from
- Thomas County
- water as percent of area
- 0.01
- per capita income
- 34865
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Thomas County, Kansas
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Colby. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 7,930. The county was named after George Thomas, a Union general during the Civil War.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thomas County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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On the map
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