Peketon County was a county of the United States Territory of Kansas that existed from 1860 and 1865.
Peketon County was a county of the United States Territory of Kansas that existed from 1860 and 1865.
Peketon County was established in 1860, by the passage of a bill by S. N. Wood: An act to establish Peketon County. Section 1. - That all that territory west of the sixth principal meridian and south of Township 16, in Kansas Territory, be and the same is hereby 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 (the 103rd meridian west).
Following the Republican Party election victories in 1860, the United States Congress admitted Kansas to the Union. [1] The Kansas Act of Admission excluded the portion of the Kansas Territory west of the 25th meridian west from Washington from the new state. Portions of Peketon County were ceded to Colorado.
On February 28, 1861, the Territory of Colorado was organized to govern this unorganized territory and adjacent areas of the Territory of New Mexico, the Territory of Utah, and the Territory of Nebraska. [2] The new Colorado General Assembly organized 17 counties on November 1, 1861.
On February 17, 1865, Peketon County was taken off the books, never having been organized. Two years later, 15 new counties were formed from land formerly in Peketon County: Barber, Barton, Comanche, Ford, Harper, Hodgeman, McPherson, Ness, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Rush, Sedgwick and Stafford.
Additional counties were formed from former Peketon County land in 1873.
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