Wallace County, Kansas

Founding: 1889 (declared in 1868)
Parent county: Unorganized territory
Namesake: William Wallace, Union Army general
Seat: Sharon Springs (1889–)
Land area: 914 square miles
Population (2020): 1,512
Population (historic): 538 (1870); 2,468 (1890); 2,759 (1910); 2,882 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1870–1890; 1900s; 1920s; 1940s; 1960s; 2010s
Subdivisions: Two cities; one CDP; four townships
National Register listings: Three
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 261 (33.4%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 35.2%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 13.8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 4.8%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $898
Average outbuilding value (1930): $901

Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.5 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 341
Average farm size (1920): 297.3 acres
Sources of settlement: Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Indiana, Ohio, and Sweden
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Sharon Springs

 
Namesake: Sharon Springs, New York
Founding: 1868 (platting); 1886 (post office); 1890 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 751
Population (historic): 178 (1890); 440 (1910); 792 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1890–1920; 1940s; 1960s; 2010s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 131 (29.8%)
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