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Thomas County

county in Kansas, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_kansas Q374452

Facts

20 properties
Instance of
county of Kansas
Inception
October 8, 1885[13]
Country
United States[3]
Official website
thomascountyks.com[15]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 39.350°, -101.050°[14]
Area
+2784
Capital
Colby[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Colby[12]
Different from
Thomas County, Thomas County
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Kansas/Thomas County
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kansas[2]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C108672
Named after
George Henry Thomas[11]
Native label
Thomas County
Number of households
+3294
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Thomas County, Kansas
Per capita income
+34865
Population
7.9k (7.9k–7.9k, n=7)[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
Shares border with
Rawlins County, Decatur County, Sheridan County, Gove County, Logan County, Sherman County[5][6][7][8][9][10]
Water as percent of area
+0.01
🏷️ Also known as
en Thomas County en Thomas County, Kansas en Thomas County, KS ar مقاطعة توماس ar مقاطعه توماس، كانزاس el κομητεία Τόμας es condado de Thomas es Thomas County fa شهرستان توماس fi Thomasin piirikunta fr comté de Thomas fr Thomas County hu Thomas megye it contea di Thomas it Thomas County ja トーマス郡 ja トマス郡 ko 토머스군 pl Hrabstwo Thomas pt Thomas County
🔖 Identifiers · 28
VIAF cluster ID
126658664
Library of Congress authority ID
n79092559
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Thomas County Courthouse Colby Kansas 5-7-2014.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
19151
Ballotpedia ID
Thomas_County,_Kansas
FIPS 6-4 ID
20193
Freebase ID
/m/0np17
GADM ID
USA.17.97_1
GNIS Feature ID
485057
GeoNames ID
5446632
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2000756
HASC
US.KS.TH
Show all 28 identifiers +16
INaturalist place ID
2197
Kansapedia ID
15351
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.20193
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007550342705171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00192842
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2792224
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1070348
OpenWeatherMap city ID
5446632
Our Campaigns container ID
3755
Taxonomicon ID
1805841
Topic's main category
Category:Thomas County, Kansas
UMLS CUI
C3815216
Who's on First ID
102082669
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"ThomasCounty", "Kansas", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJtcMmqmCckKhdK9Kvy68C
Yale LUX ID
place/c226dc90-ce42-42c0-9661-e4a7c54fc97c

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Elevation above sea levelP2044
975 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
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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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
where from?
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 7
Great Plains, Colby, Brewster, Gem, Rexford, Menlo, Levant
Shares border with 6
Gove County, Logan County, Rawlins County, Decatur County, Sheridan County, Sherman County
← Shares border with 6
Gove County, Logan County, Rawlins County, Decatur County, Sheridan County, Sherman County
← Category combines topics 3
Category:People from Thomas County, Kansas, Category:Populated places in Thomas County, Kansas, Category:Geography of Thomas County, Kansas
Different from 2
Thomas County, Thomas County
← Different from 2
Thomas County, Thomas County
Capital 1
Colby
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Thomas County, Kansas
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Colby
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kansas
Located in time zone 1
Central Time Zone
Named after 1
George Henry Thomas
Topic's main category 1
Category:Thomas County, Kansas
← Capital of 1
Colby
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Thomas County, Kansas
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Kansas
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Summary

Thomas County is a county of Kansas[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Thomas County covers an area of {'amount': '+2784'}[23].

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. 8w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Thomas County, Kans
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Thomas County, Kansas.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidential"
  2. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46950|batch #46950]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  3. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxonomicon ID → 1805841
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00192842
    UMLS CUI → C3815216
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/31546|batch #31546]]"
  4. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'latitude': 39.35, 'longitude': -101.05}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Kansas
    Aliases → —
    Named after → George Henry Thomas
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C108672, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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