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Pottawatomie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Westmoreland. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 25,348. [1] The county was named for the Potawatomi tribe.
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The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of 862 square miles (2,230 km2). Of that 841 square miles (2,180 km2) is land and 21 square miles (54 km2) (2.4%) is water.
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Pottawatomie County is very Republican. The only Democratic presidential candidate to get a majority in Pottawatomie County was Franklin D. Rooseveltin 1932. Since 1940 only Lyndon Johnson in 1964 has gotten as much as forty percent of the county’s vote.
Pottawatomie County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Westmoreland. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 25,348. The county was named for the Potawatomi tribe.
Creation of Pottawatomie County. In 1856 the legislature was petitioned to create Pottawatomie County, named for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. In February of 1857, Governor Geary appointed the first county officials. First City. The first city platted in the county was St. George in 1857.
Wamego / w ɔː ˈ m iː ɡ oʊ / is a city in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 4,841. [3]
Pottawatomie County, Kansas. Pottawatomie County was once home to the Potawatomi reservation. The tribe was moved to the county in 1848 from Miami County. Overland trails such as the Oregon-California Trail, a military road, and the Pike’s Peak Trail, passed through the county.
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Pottawatomie County, Kansas, formerly a part of Riley County, was organized by the territorial legislature of 1857. The county takes its name from the Potawatomi tribe of Native Americans. The county seat is Westmoreland. The county is the second from Nebraska and the third west of Missouri.
