Haskell County, Kansas
county in Kansas, United States
Haskell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Sublette. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 3,780. The county was named after Dudley Haskell, a congressman during the 1870s and 1880s.
History
For millennia, the Great Plains of North America were inhabited by nomadic Native Americans.
In 1854, the Kansas Territory was organized, then in 1861 Kansas became the 34th U.S. state.
Haskell County was founded in 1887. It was named for Dudley C. Haskell, a former member of Congress.
Origin of the Spanish flu pandemic
Historian John M. Barry concluded that Haskell County was the location of the first outbreak of the 1918 flu pandemic (nicknamed "Spanish flu"), which killed between 21 and 100 million people. Loring Miner, a Haskell County doctor, warned the editors of Public Health Reports of the U.S. Public Health Service about the new and more deadly variant of the virus.
“Haskell County, Kansas” enters the record as county in Kansas, United States. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Haskell, County and Kansas can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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“Haskell County, Kansas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Haskell, County and Kansas provides the most credible route into that argument.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q374663. VIAF identifies the subject as 153622952. The Library of Congress control number is n82018400. Authority coordinates are 37.567, -100.867. 5 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2020, 1854, 1861 and 1887.
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This entry incorporates text from “Haskell County, Kansas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.