Osborne County, Kansas

Founding: 1871 (declared in 1867)
Parent county: Unorganized territory
Namesake: Vincent Osborne, Kansas soldier
Seat: Osborne (1872–)
Land area: 893 square miles
Population (2020): 3,500
Population (historic): 12,517 (1880); 11,844 (1900); 11,568 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1870s; 1900s
Subdivisions: Five cities; 23 townships
National Register listings: Eight
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 38.9%
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 840 (40.7%)

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 11.6%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 1.9%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,157
Average outbuilding value (1930): $955

Average farmhouse size (1940): 6.1 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 1,781
Average farm size (1920): 206.2 acres
Sources of settlement: Iowa, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, and Missouri
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Osborne

 
Namesake: Vincent Osborne, Kansas soldier
Founding: 1871 (platting); 1872 (post office); 1878 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 1,335
Population (historic): 719 (1880); 1,075 (1900); 1,881 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1871–1890; 1900–1930; 1940s; 1970s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 301 (35.4%)
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