County	Created	Parent	County Seat	County Coordinator
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Allen	1855	Original county	Iola	Norma Hass
Anderson	1855	Original county	Garnett
Atchison	1855	Original county	Atchison
Barber	1867	Harper	Medicine Lodge	Rebecca Maloney
Barton	1867	Ellsworth	Great Bend
Bourbon	1855	Original county	Fort Scott
Brown	1855	Original county	Hiawatha	Rebecca Maloney
Butler	1855	Original county	El Dorado	Norma Hass
Chase	1859	Butler	Cottonwood Falls	Lorna Marvin
Chautauqua	1875	Howard	Sedan
Cherokee	1855	Unorg. Terr.	Columbus	Carolyn Ward
Cheyenne	1875	Kirwin Land District	Saint Francis	Norma Hass
Clark	1885	Ford	Ashland	Norma Hass
Clay	1857	Original county	Clay Center
Cloud	1860	Formerly Shirley county	Concordia	Susan Hoppe
Coffey	1855	Original county	Burlington	Rebecca Maloney
Comanche	1867	Kiowa	Coldwater	Norma Hass
Cowley	1867	Formerly Hunter county	Winfield
Crawford	1867	Bourbon	Girard	Norma Hass
Decatur	1875	Norton	Oberlin
Dickinson	1855	Original county	Abilene
Doniphan	1855	Original county	Troy	Bob Jenkins
Douglas	1855	Original county	Lawrence	Linda K Lewis
Edwards	1874	Kiowa	Kinsley
Elk	1875	Howard	Howard	Norma Hass
Ellis	1867	Unorg. Terr.	Hays
Ellsworth	1867	Saline	Ellsworth	Rebecca Maloney
Finney	1883	Arapahoe, Foote, Sequoyah	Garden City	Norma Hass
Ford	1873	Unorig. Terr.	Dodge City
Franklin	1855	Original county	Ottawa	Linda K Lewis
Geary	1855	Davis county 1875-1888, Riley	Junction City
Gove	1868	Unorg. Terr.	Gove	Lynette Wolf  and Cristy Tuttle
Graham	1867	Rooks	Hill City
Grant	1873	Finney, Kearney	Ulysses
Gray	1887	Finney, Ford	Cimarron
Greeley	1873	Hamilton	Tribune
Greenwood	1855	Original county	Eureka
Hamilton	1873	Unorg. Terr.	Syracuse	Norma Hass
Harper	1867	Kingman	Anthony
Harvey	1872	McPherson, Sedgwick, Marion	Newton
Haskell	1887	Finney	Sublette	Ludi Swanson
Hodgeman	1879	Indian Lands (est. 1868)	Jetmore	Norma Hass
Jackson	1855	See Calhoun	Holton	Norma Hass
Jefferson	1855	Original county	Oskaloosa
Jewell	1867	Mitchell	Mankato	Carolyn Ward
Johnson	1855	Original county	Olathe	Linda K Lewis
Kearny	1873	Finney	Lakin
Kingman	1886	Unorig. Terr.	Kingman
Kiowa	1886	Comanche, Edwards	Greensburg
Labette	1867	Neosho	Oswego
Lane	1877	Finney	Dighton	Linda K Lewis
Leavenworth	1855	Original county	Leavenworth	Linda K Lewis
Lincoln	1867	Ellsworth	Lincoln
Linn	1855	Original county	Mound City	Linda K Lewis
Logan	1881	Wallace (chg. from St. John 1887)	Oakley	Norma Hass
Lyon	1857	Madison (see Breckenridge)	Emporia	Norma Hass
Marion	1855	Chase	Marion	Rebecca Maloney
Marshall	1855	Original county	Marysville	Alice Allen
McPherson	1867	Unorg. Terr.	McPherson
Meade	1885	Unorg. Terr.	Meade	Janette Friesen
Miami	1855	Formerly Lykins county	Paola	Linda K Lewis
Mitchell	1867	Kirwin Land Dist.	Beloit	Norma Hass
Montgomery	1867	Labette	Independence	Norma Hass
Morris	1855	Madison (formerly Wise)	Council Grove	Norma Hass
Morton	1881	Stanton	Elkhart
Nemaha	1855	Original county	Seneca	Roger Goodman and Rebecca Maloney
Neosho	1855	Original county	Erie	Norma Hass
Ness	1867	Hodgeman	Ness City	Norma Hass
Norton	1867	Unorg. Terr. (chg. to Billings 1873, back to Norton 1874)	Norton
Osage	1855	Formerly Weller county	Lyndon	Norma Hass
Osborne	1867	Mitchell	Osborne	Norma Hass
Ottawa	1860	Saline	Minneapolis	Norma Hass
Pawnee	1867	Rush, Stafford	Larned	Norma Hass
Phillips	1867	Kirwin Land Dist.	Phillipsburg
Pottawatomie	1857	Riley, Calhoun	Westmoreland	MaryAlice Schwanke
Pratt	1867	Stafford	Pratt	Norma Hass
Rawlins	1873	Kirwin Land Dist.	Atwood
Reno	1867	Sedgwick, McPherson	Hutchinson	Marcia Ann Kuehl
Republic	1860	Washington, Cloud	Belleville	Norma Hass
Rice	1867	Reno	Lyons	Scot Stout
Riley	1855	Unorg. Terr., Wabaunsee	Manhattan	Linda K Lewis
Rooks	1867	Kirwin Land Dist.	Stockton	Norma Hass
Rush	1867	Unorg. Terr.	LaCrosse
Russell	1867	Ellsworth	Russell	Norma Hass
Saline	1860	Original county	Salina	Norma Hass
Scott	1873	Finney	Scott City	Kathleen Hoeme
Sedgwick	1867	Butler	Wichita
Seward	1855	Indian Lands	Liberal	Norma Hass
Shawnee	1855	Original county	Topeka	Bob Jenkins
Sheridan	1873	Unorg. Terr.	Hoxie	Norma Hass
Sherman	1873	Kirwin Land Dist.	Goodland	Norma Hass
Smith	1867	Unorg. Terr.	Smith Center
Stafford	1867	Unorg. Terr.	Saint John
Stanton	1873	Reorganized	Johnson	Norma Hass
Stevens	1873	Indian Lands	Hugoton	Mike Sweeney
Sumner	1867	Cowley	Wellington
Thomas	1873	Kirwin Land Dist.	Colby
Trego	1867	Ellis	Wakeeney
Wabaunsee	1855	Riley, Morris (Formerly Richardson)	Alma	Rebecca Maloney
Wallace	1868	Indian Lands (see Logan)	Sharon Springs	Norma Hass
Washington	1855	Original county	Washington
Wichita	1873	Indian Lands	Leoti
Wilson	1855	Original county	Fredonia	Carolyn Ward
Woodson	1855	Original county	Yates Center
Wyandotte	1859	Original county	Kansas City	Linda K Lewis