Shawnee County, Kansas, United States

Details for Shawnee County

Name

Shawnee County

Place Type

County

Located in

Kansas, United States

County Seat

Topeka

Coordinates

Latitude		39.0500003		39° 03' 00" N
Longitude		-95.7669285		95° 46' 00.9" W

Population

160,976

Elevation

280 m

Surrounding Counties

Jefferson NE
Douglas SE
Osage S
Wabaunsee NW
Pottawatomie NW
Jackson N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

485051

Histopolis Place ID

532843836

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Shawnee County

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

Shawnee County, Kansas County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Shawnee County, Kansas, KS - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=5028 (20 Aug 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Shawnee 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/SH.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Shawnee County, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawnee_County,_Kansas (23 Aug 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=972 (10 Sep 2009)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Shawnee County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Shawnee County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Shawnee/ (18 Jan 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Shawnee County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Shawnee County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Shawnee/cem/ (5 Nov 2008)

KSGenWeb Archives: Shawnee County, Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
Kansas USGenWeb Archives Shawnee County
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/shawnee/shawnee.htm (29 Jan 2010)

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

Cemeteries in or near Shawnee County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=5028&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (21 Nov 2008)

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Surveys in Shawnee County

1 Survey, 6 Ranges, 21 Townships

The Sixth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Shawnee County. You can navigate to any of the 21 survey townships that overlap Shawnee County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships and Cities of Shawnee County

12 Townships, 1 City (Township is assumed unless noted)

Auburn	Dover	Grove	Menoken
Mission	Monmouth	Rossville	Silver Lake
Soldier	Tecumseh	Topeka	Topeka (city)
Williamsport

Cities of Shawnee County

5 Cities, 43 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Adams Heights Mobile Home Park	Auburn (city)	Belmont	Berryton
Blue Oaks and Live Oaks Mobile Home Park	Brittany Place Mobile Home Park	Caravan Mobile Park	Coachlight Village Mobile Home Courts North
Coachlight Village Mobile Home Courts South	Countryside Home Park Mobile Home Park	Cullen Village	Dover
Elmont	England Mobile Home Estates	Garfield Mobile Home Park	Green Acres Park Mobile Home Park
Grove	Highland Park	Hillside Mobile Home Park	Kiro
Lindbloom Park (historical u.p.)	Mathews Park	Meadowood Mobile Home Park	Menoken
North Ridge Mobile Home Park	North Topeka	North Valley Mobile Home Village	Northview Mobile Home Park
Oakland	Pauline	Richland	Ridgewood Estates Mobile Home Park
Rossville (city)	S and J Estates Mobile Home Park	Shady Acres Mobile Home Park	Shawnee Hills Mobile Home Park
Silver Lake (city)	South Village Mobile Home Park	Spencer	Tecumseh
Terra Heights	Topeka (city)	Valencia	Wakarusa
Watson	White Lakes Mobile Home Park	Wilcox Court Mobile Home Park	Willard (city)

Cemeteries of Shawnee County

30 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Auburn	Bauer	Bethel	Bohemian
Capitol View Memorial Gardens	Dover	Elevation	Emmanuel
Foster	Franklin	Green	Halfday
Lynn Creek	Memorial Park	Mount Auburn	Mount Calvary
Mount Hope	Mt. Auburn (*)	Mt. Calvary (*)	Mt. Hope (*)
Prairie Home	Richland	Rochester	Rossville
Saint Bartholomew	Shawnee Center	Silver Lake	Silver Lake
Simerwell	St. Bartholomew (*)	Topeka	Valencia
Yocum	Zion

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