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Peketon County, Kansas [defunct]

Date Established:	February 21, 1860
Date Organized:
Date Defunct:	February 26, 1867
Location:
Boundaries:	Peketon included all territory west of the 6th principal meridian, and south of township 16 south, more than one-quarter of the state. The northeast corner was at the southwest corner of Dickinson County; from which point the northern boundary of Peketon ran west past what is now the Kansas/Colorado state line into southeastern Colorado, and the eastern boundary went south to the border of Indian Territory (now the state of Oklahoma).
County Seat:	Beach Valley
Origin of Name:	Possibly from a Sac Indian word meaning flat land, but no definitive explanation has ever been found.
History:	Peketon County was never organized, and its territory became a part of Marion County in 1867.
Population:	No Data Available.
Other Resources:	Post offices in Peketon County