Wallace County, Kansas

**Wallace County** (standard abbreviation: **WA**) is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas. In 2020 census, 1,512 people lived there. This would make it the county in Kansas with the second-least number of people living in it. Its county seat is Sharon Springs. The county was created in 1868. It was named after Brigadier general W.H.L. Wallace, who was a veteran of the Mexican–American War and a casualty of the Battle of Shiloh.

### 19th century

In 1868, **Wallace County** was created.

## Geography

The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . Of that,  is land and  (0.01%) is water.

Mount Sunflower is in Wallace County. It is the highest place in Kansas. It is 4,039 feet (1,231 meters). Mount Sunflower is about  north-northwest of Weskan, less than one mile (1.6 km) from the Colorado state line.

### Time zones

Wallace County is one of four Kansas counties to use Mountain Standard Time rather than Central Standard Time.

### Presidential elections

|Year|Republican|Democratic|Third Parties|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|style="text-align:center;"|**2016**|style="text-align:center;"|**93.3%** _770_|style="text-align:center;"|5.3% _44_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.3% _11_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**2016**|style="text-align:center;"|**90.4%** _721_|style="text-align:center;"|5.8% _46_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|3.9% _31_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**2012**|style="text-align:center;"|**90.1%** _719_|style="text-align:center;"|8.5% _68_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.4% _11_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**2008**|style="text-align:center;"|**85.8%** _690_|style="text-align:center;"|11.9% _96_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.2% _18_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**2004**|style="text-align:center;"|**84.7%** _742_|style="text-align:center;"|12.8% _112_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.5% _22_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**2000**|style="text-align:center;"|**85.6%** _737_|style="text-align:center;"|12.0% _103_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.4% _21_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1996**|style="text-align:center;"|**76.2%** _738_|style="text-align:center;"|16.5% _160_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.2% _70_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1992**|style="text-align:center;"|**63.7%** _679_|style="text-align:center;"|15.4% _164_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|20.9% _223_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1988**|style="text-align:center;"|**69.6%** _655_|style="text-align:center;"|27.3% _257_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|3.1% _29_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1984**|style="text-align:center;"|**83.0%** _838_|style="text-align:center;"|15.1% _152_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.0% _20_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1980**|style="text-align:center;"|**78.3%** _811_|style="text-align:center;"|16.1% _167_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|5.6% _58_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1976**|style="text-align:center;"|**52.8%** _600_|style="text-align:center;"|42.7% _486_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|4.5% _51_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1972**|style="text-align:center;"|**73.2%** _782_|style="text-align:center;"|20.0% _214_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|6.7% _72_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1968**|style="text-align:center;"|**61.5%** _608_|style="text-align:center;"|23.8% _235_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|14.7% _145_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1964**|style="text-align:center;"|**50.7%** _516_|style="text-align:center;"|48.7% _496_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.6% _6_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1960**|style="text-align:center;"|**68.2%** _727_|style="text-align:center;"|31.8% _339_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.0% _0_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1956**|style="text-align:center;"|**72.7%** _684_|style="text-align:center;"|26.7% _251_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.6% _6_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1952**|style="text-align:center;"|**78.8%** _945_|style="text-align:center;"|20.8% _249_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.4% _5_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1948**|style="text-align:center;"|**58.2%** _637_|style="text-align:center;"|40.1% _439_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.7% _18_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1944**|style="text-align:center;"|**70.8%** _720_|style="text-align:center;"|28.7% _292_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.5% _5_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1940**|style="text-align:center;"|**67.1%** _756_|style="text-align:center;"|32.0% _361_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.9% _10_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1936**|style="text-align:center;"|**56.7%** _658_|style="text-align:center;"|42.4% _492_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.0% _11_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1932**|style="text-align:center;"|40.3% _561_|style="text-align:center;"|**54.6%** _761_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|5.1% _71_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1928**|style="text-align:center;"|**66.2%** _738_|style="text-align:center;"|31.9% _356_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.9% _21_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1924**|style="text-align:center;"|**53.7%** _603_|style="text-align:center;"|15.2% _171_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|31.1% _349_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1920**|style="text-align:center;"|**70.4%** _632_|style="text-align:center;"|22.6% _203_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|7.0% _63_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1916**|style="text-align:center;"|39.5% _381_|style="text-align:center;"|**51.5%** _497_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|9.0% _87_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1912**|style="text-align:center;"|15.2% _81_|style="text-align:center;"|28.5% _152_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|**56.4%** _301_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1908**|style="text-align:center;"|**59.3%** _350_|style="text-align:center;"|34.9% _206_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|5.8% _34_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1904**|style="text-align:center;"|**84.0%** _278_|style="text-align:center;"|11.8% _39_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|4.2% _14_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1900**|style="text-align:center;"|**66.3%** _212_|style="text-align:center;"|31.9% _102_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|1.9% _6_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1896**|style="text-align:center;"|**59.3%** _181_|style="text-align:center;"|40.7% _124_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|0.0% _0_|
|style="text-align:center;"|**1892**|style="text-align:center;"|**55.9%** _377_||style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|44.1% _297_||
|style="text-align:center;"|**1888**|style="text-align:center;"|**65.7%** _412_|style="text-align:center;"|31.6% _198_|style="text-align:center; background:honeyDew;"|2.7% _17_|

Wallace has been one of the most Republican counties in Kansas. Only two Democratic Presidential nominees have ever won Wallace County – Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Since 1944 only three Democratic Presidential candidates have won 31 percent of Wallace County's vote – Harry S. Truman in 1948, Lyndon Johnson in 1964 and Jimmy Carter in 1976. In the 2016 election Hillary Clinton won less than six percent of the county's vote. The last five Republican nominees have all won at least 84 percent.

### Unified school districts

- Wallace USD 241
- Weskan USD 242

### Cities

- Sharon Springs
- Wallace

## More reading

- _Standard Atlas of Wallace County, Kansas_; Geo. A. Ogle & Co; 42 pages; 1908.

## Other websites

- County
- Wallace County - Directory of Public Officials
- Maps
- Wallace County Maps: Current , Historic , KDOT
- Kansas Highway Maps: Current , Historic , KDOT
- Kansas Railroad Maps: Current , 1996, 1915, KDOT and Kansas Historical Society

## Infobox (u.s. county)

- **county**: Wallace County
- **state**: Kansas
- **type**: County (United States), County
- **ex image**: Wallace County, Kansas courthouse from S 1.JPG
- **ex image cap**: Wallace County courthouse in Sharon Springs, Kansas, Sharon Springs (2010)
- **founded**: 1868
- **named for**: W. H. L. Wallace
- **seat wl**: Sharon Springs
- **largest city wl**: Sharon Springs
- **area total sq mi**: 914
- **area land sq mi**: 914
- **area water sq mi**: 0.05
- **area percentage**: 0.01
- **population as of**: 2020
- **population total**: 1512
- **population density sq mi**: 1.7
- **district**: 1st
- **time zone**: Mountain