Comanche County, Kansas

Founding: 1885 (declared in 1867)
Parent county: Unorganized territory
Namesake: The Comanche people
Seat: Coldwater (1885–)
Land area: 788 square miles
Population (2020): 1,689
Population (historic): 2,549 (1890); 3,281 (1910); 5,238 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1880s; 1900–1920
Subdivisions: Three cities; four townships
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 520 (49.9%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 42.3%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 11.6%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 5%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,517
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,460

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.4 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 570
Average farm size (1920): 379.4 acres
Sources of settlement: Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Oklahoma
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Coldwater

 
Namesake: Coldwater, Michigan
Founding: 1884 (platting); 1884 (post office); 1885 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 687
Population (historic): 480 (1890); 684 (1910); 1,296 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1880s; 1900–1930
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 237 (49.7%)
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