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Cherokee County

county in Kansas, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_kansas Q376640

Facts

20 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Kansas
Inception
August 30, 1855[13]
Official website
cherokeecountyks.com[15]
Native label
Cherokee County

Location

Country
United States[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.167°, -94.850°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kansas[2]
Shares border with
Crawford County, Ottawa County, Labette County, Craig County, Newton County, Jasper County[5][6][7][8][9][10]

Population and size

Area
+1531
Population
19k (19k–22k, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
More facts +10
Capital
Columbus[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Columbus[12]
Different from
Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Kansas/Cherokee County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Cherokee County, Kansas[23]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108586
Named after
Cherokee[11]
Number of households
+7954
Per capita income
+23238
Water as percent of area
+0.6
🏷️ Also known as
en Cherokee County en Cherokee County, Kansas en Cherokee County, KS ar مقاطعة تشيروكي ar مقاطعه تشيروكي، كانزاس el Κομητεία Τσερόκι es Cherokee County es condado de Cherokee fa شهرستان چروکی fi Cherokeen piirikunta fr Cherokee County fr comté de Cherokee hu Cherokee megye it Cherokee County it contea di Cherokee ja チェロキー郡 ko 체로키군 pl Hrabstwo Cherokee pt Cherokee County ro Comitatul Cherokee, Kansas
🔖 Identifiers · 29
VIAF cluster ID
140736546
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82020171
GND ID
4213573-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Tri-state markers 2006-07-03.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19068
Ballotpedia ID
Cherokee_County,_Kansas
FIPS 6-4 ID
20021
Freebase ID
/m/0nq2d
GADM ID
USA.17.11_1
GNIS Feature ID
484980
GeoNames ID
4269459
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000670
Show all 29 identifiers +17
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online ID
Cherokee County (Kansas, USA)
HASC
US.KS.CK
INaturalist place ID
389
J9U entity ID
987007555157505171
Kansapedia ID
15267
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.20021
OBO Gazetteer ID
00192161
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2791497
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1070328
Our Campaigns container ID
3669
Taxonomicon ID
1805755
Topic's main category
Category:Cherokee County, Kansas
UMLS CUI
C3810807
Who's on First ID
102082169
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"CherokeeCounty", "Kansas", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJckPqpWXm3WqDjBKKPCwC
Yale LUX ID
place/11a04410-efac-4ea6-a4af-be185d6e9226
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
276 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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Bronze
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Located in time zoneP421
America/Chicago 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 27
Galena, Columbus, Baxter Springs, Scammon, West Mineral, Roseland, Weir, Treece +19 more
← Different from 8
Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee
Different from 7
Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County, Cherokee County
Shares border with 6
Newton County, Jasper County, Labette County, Crawford County, Ottawa County, Craig County
← Shares border with 6
Newton County, Jasper County, Labette County, Crawford County, Ottawa County, Craig County
← Category combines topics 3
Category:Geography of Cherokee County, Kansas, Category:People from Cherokee County, Kansas, Category:Populated places in Cherokee County, Kansas
Capital 1
Columbus
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Cherokee County, Kansas
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Columbus
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kansas
Located in this place 1
Battle of Fort Blair
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
Named after 1
Cherokee
Topic's main category 1
Category:Cherokee County, Kansas
← Capital of 1
Columbus
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Cherokee County, Kansas
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kansas
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Summary

Cherokee County is a county of Kansas[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Cherokee County covers an area of {'amount': '+1531'}[24].

Related Entities

Kansas United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Cherokee County, Ka
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Cherokee County, Kansas.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidenti"
  2. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #46950: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3810807
    Taxonomicon ID → 1805755
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00192161
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #31546"
  4. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → county of Kansas
    Named after → Cherokee
    Capital → Columbus
    Topic's main category → Category:Cherokee County, Kansas
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NCI Thesaurus ID: C108586, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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