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  Welcome to Kansas Trails' Smith County. Our goal is helping you find your ancestors by placing data online for the Free use of all researchers.  We are proud to expand Kansas with Smith County, providing our "experience" gained from years of researching our ancestors and website hosting.  We want to hear about you and the history of your ancestors from this beautiful State. We also need contributions of your data, history and stories to make this a great place to research.  Everything is helpful: Obituaries, Biographies, Photos and County History, to name a few.
  As data becomes available, we will put it online.  Information for the County of Smith will be posted as fast as we can find, type and/or receive it.  We welcome your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions.
  You are welcome to browse the information here to gather the data needed in your research. Please remember that this data represents hours of painstaking research by the State Coordinator, County Host, Volunteers, and Contributors, who donate to this site. Show your respect for these efforts by not using it on other websites or publications without written permission of the host and/or Contributors nor claim as your own.

If you wish to submit data of any type to this site, it will be graciously accepted and added to this site.
Remember: Submitted data will always be YOURS.
CONTROL of any submitted data is yours.
At any time you can choose to remove it or keep it online
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your Temporary Smith County host, Sara Hemp


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Townships
Banner
Beaver
Blaine
Cedar
Center
Cora
Crystal Plains
Dor
Garfield
German
Harlan
Harvey
Houston
Lane 
Lincoln
Logan
Martin
Oak
Pawnee
Pleasant
Swan
Valley
Washington
Webster
White Rock
 
Cities
Smith Center
Kensington
Lebanon
Gaylord
Athol
Cedar


The Homestead Act was enacted by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862. The first homestead in Smith County was in 1871 and there were 3,800 inhabitants by 1875. The county grew to 15,000 people by 1889.
Corn was the main crop at first but drought and grasshopper plagues severely hurt the crops. When hardy Winter wheat was introduced to Kansas by Russian settlers, it eventually became the predominant crop in Smith County.
The population of the county has slowly declined since 1900 due in large part because of advanced farming techniques that require less human labor.
Dr. Brewster Higley wrote the song "Home on the Range" in the early 1870s. It later became the Kansas State song.
Smith County is divided into twenty-five townships. None of the cities within the county are considered governmentally independent.



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