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'''Haskell County''' (county code '''HS''') is a [[U.S. county|county]] located in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Kansas]]. Its [[county seat]] and most populous city is [[Sublette, Kansas|Sublette]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx|access-date=June 7, 2011-06-07|title=Find a County|publisher=National Association of Counties}}</ref> As of the [[2020 United States Census|2020 census]], the county population was 3,780.<ref name="QF">{{cite web |title=QuickFacts; Haskell County, Kansas; Population, Census, 2020 & 2010 |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/haskellcountykansas/POP010220 |publisher=United States Census Bureau |access-date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817025013/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/haskellcountykansas/POP010220 |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |url-status=live}}</ref> The county was named after [[Dudley C. Haskell|Dudley Haskell]], a congressman during the 1870s and 1880s.

{{See also|History of Kansas|Timeline of Kansas history}}

Historian [[John M. Barry]] concluded that Haskell County was the location of the first outbreak of the [[1918 flu pandemic]] (nicknamed "Spanish flu"), which killed between 21 and 100 million people.<ref name="BarryNIH"/><ref>{{YouTube |id=7MHT5xTkL2g |time=4m55s |title=The 1918 Spanish Flu-A Conspiracy of Silence}}</ref> Dr. Loring Miner, a Haskell County doctor, warned the editors of ''Public Health Reports'' of the U.S. Public Health Service about the new and more deadly variant of the virus. It produced the common influenza symptoms with a new intensity: "violent headache and body aches, high fever, non-productive cough... This was violent, rapid in its progress through the body, and sometimes lethal. This influenza killed. Soon dozens of patients—the strongest, the healthiest, the most robust people in the county—were being struck down as suddenly as if they had been shot." <ref>John M. Barry, ''[[The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History]]'' (New York: Penguin Books, c2004, 2005) p. 93.</ref> Barry writes that in the first six months of 1918, Miner's warning of "the influenza of a severe type" was the only reference in that journal to influenza anywhere in the world.<ref>, John M. Barry, ''The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History'' (New York: Penguin Books, c2004, 2005) pp. 94-95.</ref>

If the virus did not originate in Haskell, there is no good explanation for how it arrived there. There were no other known outbreaks anywhere in the United States from which someone could have carried the disease to Haskell and no suggestions of influenza outbreaks in either newspapers or reflected in vital statistics anywhere else in the region. And unlike the 1916 outbreak in France, one can trace with perfect definiteness the route of the virus from Haskell to the outside world.<ref name="BarryNIH">{{cite journal |last1=Barry |first1=John M |title=The site of origin of the 1918 influenza pandemic and its public health implications |journal=Journal of Translational Medicine |date=20 January 2004 |volume=2 |issue=1 |page=3 |doi=10.1186/1479-5876-2-3 |pmid=14733617 |issn=1479-5876 |pmc=340389 |doi-access=free }}</ref></blockquote>

The railroad and the development of oil and gas fields in the 1930s, and the locating of many deep wells for irrigation significantly improved the economy of the area helping overcome the "dust bowl" of that period.<ref name=pedia>[https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/haskell-county-kansas/15296 Haskell County, Kansas], Kansapedia. Retrieved 8 April 8, 2020.</ref> Haskell County was one of the hardest hit counties in the Midwest during the drought of 1930–1937.

According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|578|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|578|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|0.4|sqmi}} (0.06%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-April 23, 2011|date=2011-02-February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

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|estimate=3630

|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=U.S. Decennial Census|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=July 26, 2014}}</ref><br />1790-19601790–1960<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mapserver.lib.virginia.edu|title=Historical Census Browser|publisher=University of Virginia Library|access-date=July 26, 2014}}</ref> 1900-19901900–1990<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/cencounts/ks190090.txt|title=Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=July 26, 2014}}</ref><br />1990-20001990–2000<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327165705/http://www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs/phc-t4/tables/tab02.pdf |archive-date=2010-03-March 27, 2010 |url-status=live|title=Census 2000 PHC-T-4. Ranking Tables for Counties: 1990 and 2000|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=July 26, 2014}}</ref> 2010-20202010–2020<ref name="QF"/>

As of the [[United States Census, 2000|U.S. Census in 2000]],<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-January 31, 2008|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> there were 4,307 people, 1,481 households, and 1,153 families residing in the county. The [[population density]] was {{convert|8|/mi2|/km2|disp=preunit|people&nbsp;|people|}}. There were 1,639 housing units at an average density of {{convert|3|/mi2|/km2|}}. The [[Race (United States Census)|racial makeup]] of the county was 85.07% [[White American|White]], 0.63% [[Asian American|Asian]], 0.58% [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]], 0.19% [[Black American|Black]] or [[African American]], 11.45% from other races, and 2.09% from [[Multiracial|two or more races]]. [[Hispanic]] or [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]] of any race were 23.57% of the population.

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Although the [[Kansas Constitution]] was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Haskell County has remained a prohibition, or [[dry county|"dry"]], county until 2023, after voters in the county approved the 1986 amendment with a 30% food sales requirement.<ref>{{Cite web| url|date=http://www.ksrevenue.org/abcwetdrymap.htmMarch 1, 2023 | title=Map of Wet and Dry Counties| publisher=Alcoholic Beverage Control, Kansas Department of Revenue| dateurl=Novemberhttps://www.ksrevenue.org/pdf/abcwetdrymap.pdf 2004| access-date=2007-01-21| url-status=deadlive | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/2007100801361720231007054247/httphttps://www.ksrevenue.orggov/pdf/abcwetdrymap.htm|pdf |archive-date=2007October 7, 2023 |access-10-08date=December 4, 2023 |publisher=[[Kansas Department of Revenue]] Alcoholic Beverage Control}}</ref>

[[Image:Map of Haskell Co, Ks, USA.png|thumb|300px|2005 [[Kansas Department of Transportation|KDOT]] Mapmap of Haskell County<ref name="County-Map-Current"/> ([[:File:Kansas official transportation map legend.png|map legend]])]]

| [[Dudley Township, Haskell County, Kansas|Dudley]]|| 18825 || || 1,814 || 4 (9) || 499 (193) || 0 (0) || 0.03% || {{coord|37|30|40|N|101|0|28|W|}}

| [[Haskell Township, Haskell County, Kansas|Haskell]]|| 30625 || || 1,971 || 4 (10) || 498 (192) || 0 (0) || 0.07% || {{coord|37|32|25|N|100|51|43|W|}}

| [[Lockport Township, Haskell County, Kansas|Lockport]]|| 41675 || || 522 || 1 (3) || 498 (192) || 0 (0) || 0.09% || {{coord|37|34|19|N|100|43|11|W|}}

|colspan=9|Sources: {{Cite web| url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html| title=Census 2000 U.S. Gazetteer Files| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, Geography Division| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020802223743/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/places2k.html| archive-date=August 2, 2002-08-02}}