Peketon County, Kansas Territory

Peketon County was a county of the United States Territory of Kansas that existed from 1860 and 1865. The county seat was the now-extinct settlement of Beach Valley, located near what is now Lyons, Kansas.[1]

History

Peketon County was established in 1860, by the passage of a bill by S. N. Wood, entitled "An act to establish Peketon County", which proclaimed "all that territory west of the sixth principal meridian and south of Township 16, in Kansas Territory, [be] erected into a county, to be known by the name of Peketon County. The land designated as Peketon County included all land south of Saline County, west of Marion County, north of the border with Indian Territory, and west of the border with New Mexico Territory.[1]

Following the Republican Party election victories in 1860, the United States Congress admitted Kansas to the Union.[2] The Kansas Act of Admission excluded the portion of the Kansas Territory west of the 25th meridian west from Washington from the new state; for this reason, the western most portions of Peketon County were ceded to the newly-organized Colorado Territory.

On February 17, 1865, Peketon County was subsumed by Marion County. Following a bill passed in 1867, the area that had once comprised Peketon County was subsequently divided into a number of smaller counties, including Barber, Barton, Comanche, Ford, Harper, Hodgeman, McPherson, Ness, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Rush, Sedgwick and Stafford.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Blackmar, Frank, ed. (1912). "Peketon County". Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History. Chicago: Standard Publishing Company. p. 459.
  2. ^ "An Act for the Admission of Kansas into the Union" (cgi-bin). Thirty-sixth United States Congress. January 29, 1861. Retrieved November 26, 2007.
  3. ^ Denious, J. C. "Peketon County Later Ford". Ford County Historical Society. Retrieved March 12, 2026.
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