Elk County, Kansas, United States

Details for Elk County

Name

Elk County

Place Type

County

Located in

Kansas, United States

County Seat

Howard (Howard Township)

Coordinates

Latitude		37.4500359		37° 27' 00.1" N
Longitude		-96.2336050		96° 14' 01" W

Population

3,327

Elevation

286 m

Surrounding Counties

Wilson E
Montgomery SE
Chautauqua S
Cowley SW
Butler NW
Greenwood N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

484994

Histopolis Place ID

996784054

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Elk County

8 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=908 (6 Sep 2009)

KSGenWeb Archives: Elk County, Kansas Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
Kansas USGenWeb Archives Elk County
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/elk/elk.htm (8 Jan 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Elk County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=4603&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (5 May 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Elk County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Elk County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Elk/ (27 Dec 2009)

Elk County, Kansas Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Elk County, Kansas
http://www.interment.net/us/ks/elk.htm (16 May 2010)

Elk County, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elk_County,_Kansas (4 Aug 2010)

The Political Graveyard: Elk County, Kan. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/EK.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Elk County, Kansas KS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Elk County, Kansas KS, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4603 (23 Sep 2008)

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Surveys in Elk County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 24 Townships

The Sixth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Elk County. You can navigate to any of the 24 survey townships that overlap Elk County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Elk County

10 Townships

Elk Falls	Greenfield	Howard	Liberty
Longton	Oak Valley	Painterhood	Paw Paw
Union Center	Wildcat

Cities of Elk County

5 Cities, 5 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (City is assumed unless noted)

Busby (u.p.)	Cave Springs (u.p.)	Elk Falls	Fiat (u.p.)
Grenola	Howard	Longton	Moline
Oak Valley (u.p.)	Upola (u.p.)

Cemeteries of Elk County

17 Cemeteries, 2 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Ames	Bunker Hill	Busby	Clear Cut
Cresco	Forest	Green Lawn	Howard
Longton	Moline	Mount Olivet	Mount Zion
Mt. Olivet (*)	Mt. Zion (*)	Oak Valley	Old Tailor
Pleasant View	Upola	Wade

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