Clark County, Kansas

Founding: 1885 (declared in 1867)
Parent county: Unorganized territory
Namesake: Charles Clarke, Kansas soldier
Seat: Ashland (1885–)
Land area: 975 square miles
Population (2020): 1,991
Population (historic): 2,357 (1890); 4,093 (1910); 4,796 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1880s; 1900–1920
Subdivisions: Three cities; six townships
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 417 (35.6%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 39.1%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 10.2%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 11.4%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,057
Average outbuilding value (1930): $854

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.2 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 624
Average farm size (1920): 324.8 acres
Sources of settlement: Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois, Oklahoma, Ohio, Iowa, and Kentucky
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Ashland

 
Namesake: Ashland, Kentucky
Founding: 1884 (platting); 1885 (post office); 1886 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 783
Population (historic): 459 (1890); 910 (1910); 1,232 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1884–1930; 1940s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 210 (42.9%)
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