[4] The Santa Fe Railroad was built into the county around the time it was organized.

Her husband provided her the family's armored 1926 Hudson Super Six, and she was the first sheriff in Kansas to be supplied with a Thompson submachine gun.

The Kiowa County Courthouse was renovated with new windows and roof after the 2007 tornado damaged it.

[5] Kiowa County has a large number of iron-rich meteorites in its soil due to the Brenham meteor fall over 10 thousand years ago.

As of the census[11] of 2000, there were 3,278 people, 1,365 households, and 924 families residing in the county.

30.50% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.50% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The only Democrat to ever win a majority in the county has been Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, who ironically achieved the feat against incumbent Kansas governor Alf Landon.

Woodrow Wilson won a plurality in 1916, but since 1944 only three Democrats have reached thirty percent of the county's vote, and Michael Dukakis in 1988 during a major drought and consequent farm crisis is the last Democrat to receive so much as twenty percent.