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Harvey County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Newton . [ 3 ] As of the 2020 census , the county population was 34,024. [ 1 ]
Newton is a city in and the county seat of Harvey County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 18,602. [3] [4] Newton is located 25 miles (40 km) north of Wichita.
Newton Township covers an area of 26.77 square miles (69.3 km 2) and contains two incorporated settlements: Newton (the county seat) and North Newton. According to the USGS , it contains two cemeteries: Greenwood and Saint Marys.
The Harvey County Sheriff’s Office has identified human remains found Monday as a Newton woman reported missing in 2020, the office said in a social media post.. Sasha Kosminski’s remains were ...
1915 Railroad Map of Harvey County. For millennia, the land now known as Kansas was inhabited by Native Americans. In 1803, most of modern Kansas was secured by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state. In 1872, Harvey County was founded.
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In 1867, Sedgwick County was founded. In 1872, Harvey County was founded. Sedgwick was laid out on an 80-acre (32 ha) town site in 1870. [4] It was named for John Sedgwick, a major general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. [5] Sedgwick was incorporated as a city in 1872. [6]
In 1872, Harvey County was established within the Kansas Territory, which included the land for modern day Walton. In 1871, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway extended a main line from Emporia through Walton to Newton , [ 7 ] reaching Walton and Newton in July. [ 8 ]