Vehicle registration plates of Kansas

Vehicle registration plates of Kansas

=Current passenger baseplate=

County coding

Kansas has a system of county codes used for identification of the home county of a state resident or company on license plates and state tax forms. The codes are two letters based on the first letter of and another letter in the name of the county. There is no true convention for the selection of the letters - for example, Bourbon County is the only county that begins with "BO," yet its code is "BB." In most cases, but not all, as noted above, the only county that begins with two particular letters gets those letters. Exceptions are Decatur, Dickinson, Hodgeman, Leavenworth, Logan, McPherson, Norton, Pawnee, and Pottawatomie.

The two-letter code began appearing on Kansas license plates in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Prior to that time, the code was a number based on the order a county ranked in terms of population based on a census taken sometime in the 1920s. From the early days of the system until about 1988, the two letters were stamped on the license plate on the far left side, one letter on top of the other. Since then, the letters are on a sticker applied to the upper-left corner of the plate.

There is also a place on the address form of Kansas tax forms to place the county code.

* Allen County, AL
* Anderson County, AN
* Atchison County, AT
* Barber County, BA
* Barton County, BT
* Bourbon County, BB
* Brown County, BR
* Butler County, BU
* Chase County, CS
* Chautauqua County, CQ
* Cherokee County, CK
* Cheyenne County, CN
* Clark County, CA
* Clay County, CY
* Cloud County, CD
* Coffey County, CF
* Comanche County, CM
* Cowley County, CL
* Crawford County, CR
* Decatur County, DC
* Dickinson County, DK
* Doniphan County, DP
* Douglas County, DG
* Edwards County, ED
* Elk County, EK
* Ellis County, EL
* Ellsworth County, EW
* Finney County, FI
* Ford County, FO
* Franklin County, FR
* Geary County, GE
* Gove County, GO
* Graham County, GH
* Grant County, GT
* Gray County, GY
* Greeley County, GL
* Greenwood County, GW
* Hamilton County, HM
* Harper County, HP
* Harvey County, HV
* Haskell County, HS
* Hodgeman County, HG
* Jackson County, JA
* Jefferson County, JF
* Jewell County, JW
* Johnson County, JO
* Kearny County, KE
* Kingman County, KM
* Kiowa County, KW
* Labette County, LB
* Lane County, LE
* Leavenworth County, LV
* Lincoln County, LC
* Linn County, LN
* Logan County, LG
* Lyon County, LY
* Marion County, MN
* Marshall County, MS
* McPherson County, MP
* Meade County, ME
* Miami County, MI
* Mitchell County, MC
* Montgomery County, MG
* Morris County, MR
* Morton County, MT
* Nemaha County, NM
* Neosho County, NO
* Ness County, NS
* Norton County, NT
* Osage County, OS
* Osborne County, OB
* Ottawa County, OT
* Pawnee County, PN
* Phillips County, PL
* Pottawatomie County, PT
* Pratt County, PR
* Rawlins County, RA
* Reno County, RN
* Republic County, RP
* Rice County, RC
* Riley County, RL
* Rooks County, RO
* Rush County, RH
* Russell County, RS
* Scott County, SC
* Saline County, SA
* Sedgwick County, SG
* Seward County, SW
* Shawnee County, SN
* Sheridan County, SD
* Sherman County, SH
* Smith County, SM
* Stafford County, SF
* Stanton County, ST
* Stevens County, SV
* Sumner County, SU
* Thomas County, TH
* Trego County, TR
* Wabaunsee County, WB
* Wallace County, WA
* Washington County, WS
* Wichita County, WH
* Wilson County, WL
* Woodson County, WO
* Wyandotte County, WY

Idaho has a similar system, but uses a number and letter in the code rather than two letters.

History

References

* Codes from the 2005-06 Kansas state transportation map (index of counties).

External links

* [http://www.15q.net/ks.html Kansas license plates 1969-present]


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