Editing Cheyenne County, Kansas (section)

==Communities==
[[Image:Map of Cheyenne Co, Ks, USA.png|thumb|300px|2005 map of Cheyenne County<ref name="County-Map-Current"/> ([[:File:Kansas official transportation map legend.png|map legend]])]]
List of townships / incorporated cities / unincorporated communities / extinct former communities within Cheyenne County.<ref name="County-Map-Current">{{cite web |title=General Highway Map of Cheyenne County, Kansas |url=https://www.ksdot.gov/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/cheyenne.PDF |publisher=[[Kansas Department of Transportation]] (KDOT) |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230515195458/https://www.ksdot.gov/Assets/wwwksdotorg/bureaus/burTransPlan/maps/county-pdf/cheyenne.PDF |archive-date=May 15, 2023 |date=August 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Cities===
* [[Bird City, Kansas|Bird City]]
* [[St. Francis, Kansas|St. Francis]] (county seat)

===Unincorporated communities===
* [[Wheeler, Kansas|Wheeler]]

===Ghost towns===
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* Marney{{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
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===Post offices===
In 1886 there were six post offices in the county: Bird City, Calhoun, Lawnridge, Marney, Orlando, and Wano.{{sfn|Sims|Wheeler|1887|p=127}}
In 1888, four had been added &mdash; Clugh, Gurney, Jaqua, and Neville &mdash; and Wano had become St Francis.{{sfn|Mohler|Sims|1889|p=69}}
By 1910 this had shrunk to just four: Bird City, Jaqua, St. Francis, and Wheeler.{{sfn|Blackmar|1912a|p=328}}

===Townships===
Cheyenne County is divided into seven [[Civil township|townships]]. None of the cities within the county are considered ''governmentally independent'', and all figures for the township include those of the cities. In the following table, the population center is the largest city (or cities) included in that township's population total, if it is of a significant size.

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|- style="background:#ccccff"
! Township !! [[FIPS place code|FIPS]] !! Population<br/>center
! Population !! Population<br/>density<br/><small>/km<sup>2</sup> (/sq&nbsp;mi)</small>
! Land area<br/><small>km<sup>2</sup> (sq&nbsp;mi)</small> !! Water area<br/><small>km<sup>2</sup> (sq&nbsp;mi)</small> !! Water %
! Geographic coordinates
|- 
| [[Benkelman Township, Cheyenne County, Kansas|Benkelman]] || 06025 ||  || 57 || 0 (1) || 186 (72) || 0 (0) || 0% || {{coord|39|37|8|N|101|54|35|W|}} 
|- 
| [[Bird City Township, Cheyenne County, Kansas|Bird City]] || 06850 || [[Bird City, Kansas|Bird City]] || 771 || 1 (2) || 884 (341) || 0 (0) || 0.02% || {{coord|39|45|30|N|101|31|41|W|}} 
|- 
| [[Calhoun Township, Cheyenne County, Kansas|Calhoun]] || 09950 ||  || 57 || 0 (1) || 231 (89) || 2 (1) || 0.70% || {{coord|39|56|8|N|101|39|18|W|}} 
|- 
| [[Cleveland Run Township, Cheyenne County, Kansas|Cleveland Run]] || 14150 ||  || 67 || 0 (1) || 186 (72) || 0 (0) || 0.08% || {{coord|39|52|35|N|101|48|20|W|}} 
|- 
| [[Jaqua Township, Cheyenne County, Kansas|Jaqua]] || 35025 ||  || 46 || 0 (1) || 124 (48) || 0 (0) || 0.01% || {{coord|39|39|48|N|102|1|20|W|}} 
|- 
| [[Orlando Township, Cheyenne County, Kansas|Orlando]] || 53050 ||  || 63 || 1 (2) || 93 (36) || 0 (0) || 0% || {{coord|39|45|36|N|101|41|0|W|}} 
|- 
| [[Wano Township, Cheyenne County, Kansas|Wano]] || 75375 || [[St. Francis, Kansas|St. Francis]] || 2,104 || 2 (6) || 937 (362) || 0 (0) || 0.05% || {{coord|39|45|27|N|101|50|4|W|}} 
|-
|colspan=9|Sources: {{Cite web |url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020802223743/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 2, 2002 |title=Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division }}
|}

Cheyenne started off in 1883 as a single municipal township attached to [[Rawlins County, Kansas|Rawlins County]] for judicial and financial purposes.{{sfn|Blackmar|1912a|p=326}}
In the May 1886 election before any county or townships officers had been elected and the county seat had been chosen, there were intended to be three townships: Bird City, Wano, and a township named Hour-glass, dividing up what had by then become three municipal townships although swapping some parts of the municipal townships around for the proposed new townships.{{sfn|Denison|1886}}{{sfn|Sims|Wheeler|1887|p=124}}

In the end, the county initially had 13 townships: Beaver, Benkelman, Bird City, Calhoun, Cherry Creek, Cleveland Run, Dent, Eureka, Jaqua, Lawn Ridge, Nuttycombe, Orlando, and Wano.{{sfn|Mohler|Sims|1889|p=65}}{{sfn|Sims|Wheeler|1887|p=124}}
At the start of the 20th century, there were 17 townships: the aforementioned 13 plus Alexander,   Evergreen, Jefferson, and Porter, all added some time between 1888 and 1890.{{sfn|Blackmar|1912a|p=327}}{{sfn|Mohler|Sims|1891|p=31}}
There since has been some consolidation in the 1970s.