List of all cities and towns in Stevens County
Stevens County (standard abbreviation: SV) is a county in Kansas, United States. Hugoton is its county seat.
The county population was 5,250 as of the 2020 census.
Thaddeus Stevens, a Reconstruction-era Pennsylvania politician, inspired the county’s name.
Nomadic Native Americans lived in North America’s Great Plains for millennia.
The Kansas Territory was established in 1854, and Kansas became the 34th state of the United States in 1861.
Stevens County was formed in 1886.
The Hay Meadow Massacre, which occurred on July 25, 1888, was a violent county seat brawl between factions from Hugoton and Woodsdale in which four men were killed.
The position of the area within the Dust Bowl significantly harmed the area’s economy in the 1930s.
This disaster exacerbated the region’s economic impact of the Great Depression.
The county has a total area of 727 square miles (1,880 km2), of which 727 square miles (1,880 km2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.52 km2) (0.02%) is water, according to the United States Census Bureau.
Here is a list of cities, towns, places, and villages in Stevens County, Kansas: