Ellsworth County Kansas
Ellsworth County Kansas is approximately 717 square miles with an average county population of about 6,000. Ellsworth County has its county seat in the town of Ellsworth. It has a great little downtown area and is the center for the county. It is located in Central Kansas and is known for its post rock scenic byways and great fishing and hunting. It is full of rolling hills, high bluffs, treed areas and a beautiful countryside landscape view. The Ellsworth-Kanopolis Chamber of Commerce in Ellsworth is a great start to finding out information about the area and for resources that encourage small business and growth in its rural towns. The Census Bureau provides a quick fact page about Ellsworth County including population and business data. The University of Kansas provides a County Profile Report with 12 categories of information including business and housing information on Ellsworth County.
Ellsworth has great schools, three beautiful parks, a golf course, an airport, a swimming pool, great hunting and fishing and about 3,000 people. As the county seat of Ellsworth County, Ellsworth is located just seven miles south of I-70 and is accessible by Kansas highways 14, 140 and 156. It is a typical small rural town in Kansas that is a community working together to support the growth of business in the area and its residents. Many events such as CowTown Days happen in the Ellsworth area. The Ellsworth County Historical Society has two museum complexes which are the Hodgen House and the Fort Harker Museum and there is wealth of historical information available about the area. A good history read on the area is by Cutler. Many historical images area available from the Special Collections at the Wichita State University Library on Ellsworth, Holyrood, and Wilson. The Post Rock Scout Museum is dedicated to preservation of historical items from Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts organizations.
The Smoky Hill Development Corporation works in cooperation with Ellsworth County and its municipal cities to help bring new business to the area. It is also part of the FREE Kansas Land program where builders provide free residential lots to offer as an incentive to bring new people to town to build a new home. Many famous people are from Kansas and maybe your next business idea will start here.
The history of Ellsworth is very interesting. It was one of the wickedest cattle towns in the West and a brutal place in the 1800s. There are still some working ranches like the JL Canyon Cattle Ranch where you can visit for a trial ride or roundup.
The towns of Ellsworth County include Arcola, Black Wolf, Carneiro, Ellsworth, Holyrood, Kanopolis, Langley, Lorraine, Midway, Terra Cotta, Venango, Wilson, Yankee Run. The incorporated cities are Ellsworth, Holyrood, Kanopolis, Lorraine and Wilson.
The airports in Ellsworth County include the Ellsworth Kansas Municipal Airport and the Holyrood Municipal Airport, Belcher Airport, Rush Field and the Kanopolis State Park Airport. The local hospital is the Ellsworth County Medical Center. The newspaper for the area is the Ellsworth Independent Reporter for the county.
The Topography and Physical Land Features of Ellsworth County Kansas includes the Ellsworth County Dam and the Kanopolis Dam and the Holyrood and Kanopolis Lakes. The Smoky Hills Range and Buzzard Roost Summit are well known in the area. The parks for Ellsworth County include Boldt Bluff Public Use Area, Kanopolis State Park, Venango Public Use Area, and Yankee Run Point Public Use Area. The streams in Ellsworth County include Alum Creek, Ash Creek, Blood Creek, Bluff Creek, Buffalo Creek, Clear Creek, Cooper Creek, Crooked Creek, East Oak Creek, East Spring Creek, Little Wolf Creek, Loss Creek, Mud Creek, Oak Creek, Osage Creek, Oxide Creek, Pond Creek, Sand Creek, Skunk Creek, Spring Creek, Table Rock Creek, Thompson Creek, Turkey Creek, West Oak Creek, Wiley Creek, Wilson Creek, Wolf Creek. Other features may include Acreages, Airports, Aquaculture, Aquatic, Areas, Basins, Bays, Bends, Bluestem, Brush Area, Brushes, Canals, Capes, Cemeteries, Cliffs, Crossings, Dams, Falls, Fisheries, Fishing Lake, Flats, Forests, Forts, Gaps, Gas, Gasfields, Gaslines, Grassy Plains, Gulley, Gullies, Guts, Hills, Hilltop, Hilly, Hunting Areas, Islands, Knolls, Lakes, Levee, Locales, Lowlands, Marshes, Marshlands, Military Bases, Mineral, Mineral Rights, Mines, Mining Fields, Mud, Muddy, Mudflats, Native Grass, Natural Springs, Nature Trails, Oil, Oilfields, Parks, Pastures, Pillars, Plains, Post Offices, Ranges, Reservoirs, Ridges, Salt Mines, Springs, State Parks, Streams, Strip Mines, Summits, Swamps, Tallgrass, Thickets, Towers, Townships, Trails, Tributaries, Water Springs, Wells, Wildlife, Valleys, Viaducts. The oilfields in the area include Andrews Oil Field, Geneseo-Edwards Oil Field, Green Garden Oil Field, Heiken Oil Field, Lorraine Oilfield, Maes Oilfields, Progress Oil Field, Stoltenberg Oil Field, West Oilfields.
Ellsworth County Kansas Agricultural Links
The County Extension Office has information on 4H and farming practices or try the local USDA Farm Service County Office for more information on Ag, Agriculture, Alfalfa, Beef, Breeders, Bulls, Calf, Calves, Cattle, Corn, CRP, Dairy, Equipment, Farm Credit, Farm Loans, Farm Ownership, Farmers, Farming, Farmland, Feeds, Feedlots, Hay, Hayfields, Head, Irrigated, Irrigation, Land, Lands, Land Investing, Milk, Milking, Pounds, Programs, Purchase Land, Ranch, Rancher, Ranches, Registered, Seeds, Silo, Slaughter, Sorghums, Soybeans, Steers, Sunflowers, Supply, Supplies, Wheat, Wheatfield
Other Kansas links include Great Plains Society of American Foresters, Kansas Alliance for Wetlands and Streams, Kansas Chapter of the American Fisheries Society, Kansas Chapter of the Wildlife Society, Kansas Section of the Society for Range Management, Soil and Water Conservation Society
If you are looking for a livestock sale around the area try the Farmers and Ranchers Livestock Commission or visit the Livestock Marketing Association’s website for live auctions in your area. For cattle and horses in the area for sale try Janssen Ranch.
Ellsworth County Kansas Parks and Recreation Links
The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks has information about Kansas recreational activities and wildlife including hunting, fishing, hiking, boating, license, permits, units, cover, upland birds, waterfowl, firearms, shotgun, crossbow, bow, archery, handgun, rifle, muzzleloading, pistol, muzzleload, quail, pheasant, prairie chicken, turkey, gobbler, hunters, hunt, cabins, ducks High Plain Zone, ducks Late Zone, Canada geese, white-fronted geese, light goose, doves, Eurasian collard dove, ringed turtle dove, squirrel, rabbit, extended archery antlerless whitetail deer, coyote, furbearer hunting, trapping, bobwhite quail, doe, deer, deer’s, big game, antelope, pronghorn, elk, mule deer, prairie dog, tallgrass prairie, lowland, brush thicket, streambottoms, controlled shooting areas, sandhill cranes, Kansas deer maps, blaze orange, badger, beaver, bobcat, gray fox, foxes, mink, muskrat, raccoon, red fox, river otter, otters, striped skunk, skunks, swift fox, opossum, ring-necked pheasant, greater prairie chicken, lesser prairie chicken, rails, snipe, crows, teal, woodcock, white-winged doves, mourning doves, pigeons, rock dove, rock pigeon, swans, cranes, soras, Virginia rail, Wilson’s snipe, shorebirds, dowitchers, mallard, wood duck, green-winged teal, American black duck, mottled duck, Northern pintail duck, Blue-winged teal, cinnamon teal, Northern shoveler, gadwall, Eurasian wigeon, American wigeon, canvasback, redhead, ring-necked duck, greater scaup, lesser scaup, common eider, king eider, oldsquaw, black scoter, surf scoter, white-winged scoter, common goldeneye, Barrow’s Goldeneye, bufflehead, Ruddy duck, crow, whooping crane. Fishing in Kansas provides opportunities to catch many fish including bass, channel catfish, channel cat, flathead catfish, carp, longnose gar, drum, sauger, crappie, white bass
Ellsworth County Kansas Zip Codes
67439 – Ellsworth
67450 – Holyrood
67454 – Kanopolis
67459 – Lorraine
67490 – Wilson
And the area code is 785
The Townships in Ellsworth County Kansas are Ash Creek, Black Wolf, Carneiro, Clear Creek, Columbia, Ellsworth, Empire, Garfield, Green Garden, Langley, Lincoln, Mulberry, Noble, Palacky, Sherman, Thomas, Trivoli, Valley, Wilson
I recently went to my husband's hometown of Ellsworth, Kansas from Denver, Colorado and was reminded of the quaintness and charm of small towns in the United States. The 400 mile drive across Eastern Colorado and Western Kansas was anything but memorable, but the town itself held some charm for me and reminded me that there are people out there living a much simpler life than I.
Still, there is only one stop light in the entire town and most of the activity takes place on Main Street. There is not a Starbucks or a McDonald's. In fact, there is only one "café" on Main Street where many residents enjoy lunch and dinner. I was amazed at the prices at Payden's Café. A cheeseburger and fries for $4.00. It was like stepping into the twilight zone. And the food is actually very good! While enjoying our lunch, people that my husband went to school with over 40 years earlier came by to visit and "catch up".
