Leoti, Kansas
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Leoti is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 1,475.
Aerial view of Leoti (2023)
Wichita County courthouse in Leoti (2015)
County seat war
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A county seat war is an American phenomenon that occurred mainly in the Old West as it was being settled and county lines determined. Incidents elsewhere, such as in Michigan, Appalachian Ohio, and We
Leoti, Kansas
…the city was 1,475. Leoti was founded in 1885 by a company of men from Garden City, Kansas. Two years later, in 1887, it was involved in the bloodiest county seat fight in the history of the American West. The shoot-out was on February 27, 1887, when men—some say hired gunmen—from Leoti, went to the neighboring, rival…
Vigilantes in the 1893 Tucker County Seat War, West Virginia