Sherman County, Kansas

Founding: 1886 (declared in 1873)
Parent county: Unorganized territory
Namesake: William Tecumseh Sherman, Union general
Seat: Goodland (1887–)
Land area: 1,056 square miles
Population (2020): 5,927
Population (historic): 5,261 (1890); 4,549 (1910); 7,400 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1880s; 1900–1930; 1940s; 1960s
Subdivisions: Two cities; 13 townships
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 666 (21.4%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 46.6%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 10.4%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 6.8%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,044
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,119

Average farmhouse size (1940): 4.7 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 597
Average farm size (1920): 317.9 acres
Sources of settlement: Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio
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Goodland

 
Namesake: Goodland, Indiana
Founding: 1887 (platting); 1887 (post office); 1887 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 4,465
Population (historic): 1,027 (1890); 1,993 (1910); 3,626 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1887–1930; 1940s; 1960–1980
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 512 (22.6%)
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