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Location
 
 
County Seat: Ness City
Founded: 1880
Population:
    · 3,454 (2000)
    · 4,033 (1990)
    · 4,535 (1900)
Area: 1074 Square Miles
Standard Abbreviation: NS

Ness
County

 Ness County Courthouse in Ness City, Kansas. Photo by Susan Howell
Ness County Courthouse 

History

Map of Ness County, KS in 1899
Organized in 1873.  County seat, Ness City.  Named in honor of Noah V. Ness, corporal of Company G, Seventh Kansas Cavalry, who died Aug. 24, 1864, at Abbeyville, Miss., of wounds received in action, August 19, 1864.
 
Map and text from History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, (Winfield: E.P. Greer. 1899)
 
On May 29, 2000, a bronze, life-sized, statue of Corporal Ness was unveiled - it resides on the courthouse lawn.
 
George Washington Carver homesteaded near Beeler and built himself a sod house.  Two years later he sold the farm for money to go to college with. There's an historical marker beside K-96 and a stone monument on his homestead.
 
William G. Cutler's History of Kansas, first published in 1883, tells about early Ness County.
 
There is a section on Ness County in the book Kansas: a Cyclopedia Of State History by Frank Blackmar (1912).
 
The Kansas State Historical Society has historical data for Ness County online including a rich bibliography and lists of cemeteries, post offices, and newspapers.
 
The Special Collections of the Ablah Library at WSU contain historical images of Utica, Ransom, Ness City, and Beeler.

Cities, Towns, & Villages of Ness County

                           2000
    Town                Population  ZIP         Year  Elevation
    =================   ==========  =========   ====  =========
    Arnold                          67515       1902    2563
    Bazine                     311  67516               2125
    Beeler                          67518       1887    2505
    Brownell                    48  67521               2410
    Harold                                              2255
    Laird                                               2411
    Ness City                1,534  67560       1878    2251
    Osgood                                              2460
    Ransom                     338  67572               2511
    Riverside                                           2190
    Utica                      223  67584               2618

 
Census Bureau Profile & Map

Special Places in Ness County

Libraries

Museums

Ness County School Systems

Hospitals

Newspapers

More Data About Ness County

Health Data Geologic Data

Genealogy

Ness County Offices

 
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