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Ellsworth County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Ellsworth. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 6,376. The county was named after Fort Ellsworth.
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Ellsworth is a city in and the county seat of Ellsworth...
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Ellsworth County (county code EW) is a county in the U.S....
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On this web site you can find information for many departments in the courthouse as well as general information on Ellsworth County. Ellsworth County is located in north-central Kansas, and includes the cities of Ellsworth, Holyrood, Kanopolis, Lorraine, and Wilson.
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Smoky Hill Trail. Ellsworth County Location. Ellsworth County Map by L.H. Everts & Co., 1887. Ellsworth County, Kansas, located in the state’s center, was created out of unorganized territory in August 1867. It was named in honor of Lieutenant Allen Ellsworth, who built Fort Ellsworth on the Smoky Hill River in 1864.
Ellsworth County was organized in 1867 in the north central part of the state, where the Pawnee Indians lived and hunted. An ancient sea once covered the Smoky Hills region and formed the underlying Greenhorn limestone layer. This stone proved especially useful to farmers in an area with few trees.
