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[edit] County of LeavenworthLeavenworth is a county situated in the northeastern part of the state of Kansas, United States of America. The county seat and largest city in the county is also named Leavenworth. The county is bounded on the north by the county of Atchison, on the east by the state of Missouri (including the county of Platte) and county of Wyandotte, on the south by the counties of Johnson and Douglas, and on the west by the county of Jefferson. The Missouri river forms part of the northeastern boundary, and the Kansas river forms the southern boundary. [edit] HistoryLeavenworth was one of the first 33 counties erected, on 25 August 1855, by the first legislative Assembly of the territory of Kansas. It was named after Fort Leavenworth, so called for Gen. Henry H. Leavenworth who established it. The original county of Leavenworth embraced all of the Delaware trust lands that were ceded to the United States by the treaty of 1854; also, the Delaware Indian reserve and the diminished reserve, the Muncie lands, a small part of the Kickapoo lands, the U.S. miltary reservation of Fort Leavenworth, and the Wyandotte lands. By act of the territorial legislature, approved 29 January 1859, the county of Wyandotte was cut out of the southeast corner of the county and included what was originally embraced in the Wyandotte Indian reserve. The county commissioners first met on Friday, 7 September 1855, in the city of Leavenworth. They divided the county into five townships: Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Delaware, Wyandotte, and Alexandria. In 1858, the township of Quindaro was created from a portion of Wyandotte and became a part of the county of Wyandotte the following year. With the creation of Wyandotte county, the county board reorganized the townships, effective 28 February 1859, to be Easton, Kickapoo, Leavenworth, Delaware, Stranger, and Alexandria. The townships of Tonganoxie, Fairmount, and High Prairie were established in 1867, and Reno and Sherman were established in 1869. [edit] BoundariesThe boundaries of the county, as first defined by the first legislative Assembly in section 27 of the Territorial act, were as follows: Beginning at a point on the southern boundary of Atchison county (before defined in the same act) due north of a point four miles west of Dawson's crossing of the Fort Riley road, on Stranger creek; thence due south to the main channel of Kansas river; thence down said channel to where said channel crosses the channel of the Missouri river; thence up said channel of the Missouri to the southeast corner of Atchison county; thence along the southern boundary to the place of beginning. The boundaries embraced essentially the present county and the county of Wyandotte, lying south of it. Wyandotte was detached and erected into a separate county in 1859. It included from Leavenworth all of the territory south and east of the boundaries defined, “commencing at a point in the middle of the channel of the Missouri river, where the north line of the Delaware reserve intersects the same, running thence west on said reserve line to the line between ranges 22 and 23, south on said range line to the south boundary of Leavenworth county.” The county of Leavenworth was thus diminished to essentially its present proportions, having its boundaries presently defined: Beginning at the southeast corner of Atchison county; thence west with the south boundary of Atchison county, to the corner of sections 21, 22, 27 and 28, of township 7 south, of range 20 east; thence south with the section lines between the third and fourth tiers of sections, to the middle of the main channel of the Kansas river; thence down said Kansas river, in the middle of the main channel thereof, to the intersection with the range line between ranges 22 and 23 east; thence north on said range line, to the old Delaware reserve line, the same being the dividing line between the original Delaware reservation and Delaware trust lands; thence east with said reserve line, to the western boundary line of the state of Missouri; thence northerly with said western boundary line of the state of Missouri, to the place of beginning. (G.S. 1868, ch. 24, § 39; Oct. 31; R.S. 1923, 18-152.) [edit] Population
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Leavenworth County (county code LV) is located in the U.S. state of Kansas and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 81,881. Its county seat and most populous city is Leavenworth.
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