Peketon County, Kansas Territory

- That all that territory west of the sixth principal meridian and south of Township 16, in Kansas Territory, be and the same is hereby erected into a county, to be known by the name of Peketon County.

The land designated as Peketon County included all land south of Saline County, west of Marion County, north of the border with Indian Territory and west of the border with New Mexico Territory (the 103rd meridian west).

Following the Republican Party election victories in 1860, the United States Congress admitted Kansas to the Union.

[2] The new Colorado General Assembly organized 17 counties on November 1, 1861.

Two years later, 15 new counties were formed from land formerly in Peketon County: Barber, Barton, Comanche, Ford, Harper, Hodgeman, McPherson, Ness, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno, Rice, Rush, Sedgwick and Stafford.

A map of Kansas Territory in 1860. Peketon County is located in the bottom-middle of the map.