Gray County, Kansas

Founding: 1888 (declared in 1873)
Parent county: Unorganized territory
Namesake: Alfred Gray, Kansas politician
Seat: Cimarron (1888–)
Land area: 869 square miles
Population (2020): 5,653
Population (historic): 2,415 (1890); 3,121 (1910); 6,211 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1890; 1900–1930; 1940s; 1960–2010
Subdivisions: Five cities; seven townships
National Register listings: Six
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 393 (16.8%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 38%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 12.8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 1.3%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,228
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,045

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 733
Average farm size (1920): 311.4 acres
Sources of settlement: Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, and Indiana
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Cimarron

 
Namesake: The Cimarron River
Founding: 1878 (platting); 1878 (post office); 1885 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 1,981
Population (historic): 237 (1900); 587 (1910); 599 (1920); 1,035 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1900–1930; 1940s; 1960–2010
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 105 (12.2%)
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