1890 Federal Census of Kansas

The federal Bureau of the Census conducted a census of the state in 1890. However, the original schedules were damaged by a fire in Washington, D.C., in 1921, and most were subsequently destroyed. None of the Kansas census survives.

For more information, see "First in the Path of the Firemen": The Fate of the 1890 Population Census, by Kellee Blake, published in Prologue: Quarterly of the National Archives and Records Administration, Spring 1996, vol. 28, no. 1 (also available in library collection: 025.171 Un3 P944 28:1).