Arapahoe County, Kansas Territory

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A map of Kansas Territory in 1860. Arapahoe County was located in the territory's western panhandle, between Oro, Broderick, and Peketon Counties.

Arapahoe County was a

county of Kansas Territory in the United States
that existed from August 25, 1855, until Kansas's admission into the Union on January 29, 1861.

History

On August 25, 1855, the

Arapaho Nation of Native Americans
that lived in the region.

In July 1858, gold was discovered along the

Territory of Jefferson
on October 24, 1859.

Following the Republican Party election victories in 1860, the United States Congress admitted Kansas to the Union on January 29, 1861.[1] The Kansas Act of Admission excluded the portion of the Kansas Territory west of the 25th meridian west from Washington from the new state, and Arapahoe County and the rest of this region reverted to unorganized territory.

On February 28, 1861, Colorado Territory was organized out of the present borders of the State of Colorado to govern this unorganized territory and adjacent areas of New Mexico Territory, Utah Territory, and Nebraska Territory.[2] The new Colorado General Assembly organized 17 counties on November 1, 1861, including a new Arapahoe County.

Another Arapahoe County existed in southwestern Kansas around 1880, when its population was included in the Federal census of that year, but it was never organized. It became defunct in 1883 and its former area was established in 1887 as Haskell County, Kansas.

See also

References

  1. Thirty-sixth United States Congress
    . 1861-01-29. Retrieved 2007-11-26.
  2. Thirty-sixth United States Congress. 1861-02-28. Archived
    (PDF) from the original on 26 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-26.

External links

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