Kiowa County, Kansas

Founding: 1886
Parent counties: Comanche and Edwards

Namesake: The Kiowa tribe
Seat: Greensburg (1886–)

Land area: 723 square miles

Population (2020): 2,460

Population (historic): 2,873 (1890); 6,174 (1910); 6,035 (1930)

Periods of population growth: 1880s; 1900s

Subdivisions: Three cities; one township

National Register listings: Six

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 335 (27.1%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 38.8%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 6.7%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 1.3%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,308
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,209

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.7 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 826
Average farm size (1920): 357.5 acres
Sources of settlement: Kansas and Missouri
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Greensburg

Namesake: D.R. Green, local resident

Founding: 1885 (platting); 1885 (post office); 1886 (incorporation)

Population (2020): 740

Population (historic): 515 (1890); 1,199 (1910); 1,338 (1930)

Periods of population growth: 1880s; 1900s; 1920s; 1940s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 47 (10.1%)
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