Formed February 22, 1883 (95th county)
Finney County (38,467), Garden City (26,658)
A masonry Classical Revival structure is located on a square at 8th, Albert, 9th, and St. John streets. United States Highway 83 is two blocks to the east. This is a 1928 courthouse designed by the firm of Routledge and Hertz. A Statue of Liberty is on the front grounds. The county was organized on February 22, 1883 by combining Arapahoe, Grant, Kearney, and Sequoyah counties as the 95th county. It grew in 1893 when it absorbed former Garfield County. Garden City has always been the county seat. The county is named for Lieutenant Governor D. W. Finney. The county seat was named as an attraction campaign.
The area of the county is 1300 square miles. It is 2 out of 105 in the state. It ranks 12 out of 105 in population in the state. It has a density of 29.6 persons per square mile making it 28 out of 105 in the state. Finney County has 79.0% of its population in its incorporated areas. United States Highways 50/400 cross the county from southeast to west from Gray County to Kearny County. United States Highway 83 travels north to south from Scott County to Haskell County. The county is the number 7 lying on its face. Garden City is in the western quarter. Garden City is the county seat and the largest city. It is 69.3% of the county population.
Finney County government consists of a sheriff, a clerk, an attorney, a treasurer, a coroner, and an appraiser (executive). It has 5 Commissioners (legislative.) Seven District Court Judges serve Finney, Greeley, Hamilton, Kearny, Scott, and Wichita counties (judicial.) Finney County is in the southwest part of Kansas. Dodge City, Kansas is southeast and Pueblo, Colorado is west of the county. The Arkansas River flows through the county. The county center is 13 miles Northeast of Garden City. The county is surrounded clockwise by Lane, Ness, Hodgeman, Haskell, Gray, Grant, Kearny, and Scott counties. This county is in the Garden City Micropolitan Statistical Area.
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