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Wyandotte County
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county in Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- Founded
- January 29, 1859 ; 167 years ago ( 1859-01-29 )
- Named after
- Wyandot people
- Seat
- Kansas City
- Largest city
- Kansas City
- Total
- 156 sq mi (400 km )
- Land
- 152 sq mi (390 km )
- Water
- 4.6 sq mi (12 km ) 2.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 170,597
- Density
- 1,087/sq mi (420/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−6 ( Central )
- Summer dst
- UTC−5 ( CDT )
- Congressional districts
- 2nd , 3rd
- Website
- wycokck.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Wyandot people
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Contains
- Kansas City
- Capital
- Kansas City
- Population
- 169245
- Area
- 403
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Shares border with
- Leavenworth County
- Official website
- www.wycokck.org
- Image
- Wyandotte County Kansas courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 60400
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- Commons category
- Wyandotte County, Kansas
- topic's main category
- Category:Wyandotte County, Kansas
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Wyandotte County, Kansas
- inception
- 1855-01-29
- different from
- Wyandot County
- water as percent of area
- 2.9
- native label
- Wyandotte County
- social media followers
- 4233
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Wyandotte County, Kansas
- per capita income
- 23111
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Encyclopedic overview
Wyandotte County (/ˈwaɪ.əndɒt/) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Kansas City, with which it shares a unified government. As of the 2020 census, the population was 169,245, making it Kansas's fourth-most populous county. The county was named after the Wyandot tribe.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wyandotte County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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