On January 31, 2008, the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas became the first zoo in the Americas to document parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons.

Category: Geography of Sedgwick County, Colorado

* Sedgwick County, Colorado-( West )

* Sedgwick County, Colorado-southwest

* Sedgwick County, Colorado-south

* Sedgwick County, Colorado-southeast

The county should not be confused with the city of Wichita, which is located in Sedgwick County.

* Sedgwick County ( north )

Sedgwick County is part of the Wichita metropolitan area.

Sedgwick County was founded in 1867, and named after John Sedgwick, who was a Major General in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

Sedgwick County was the setting for the murders committed by the BTK strangler from 1974 until 1991.

Dennis Rader, an employee of the Sedgwick County city of Park City was arrested in early 2005 after he began sending incriminating letters taunting the police in 2004.

Sedgwick County was a prohibition, or " dry ", county until the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 and voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 % food sales requirement.

2005 Kansas Department of Transportation | KDOT Map of Sedgwick County (: File: Kansas official transportation map legend. png | map legend )

Sedgwick County is divided into twenty-seven townships.

* Sedgwick County ( southeast )

* Sedgwick County ( east )

* Sedgwick County ( south )

* Sedgwick County ( northwest )

* Sedgwick County ( west )

Until February 9, 1887, Weld County's boundaries included the area now comprising Weld County, Washington County, Logan County, Morgan County, Yuma County, Phillips County, and Sedgwick County.

* In October 2006, the New Scientist headlined an article " Why the Loch Ness Monster is no plesiosaur " because Leslie Noè of the Sedgwick Museum in Cambridge reported, " The osteology of the neck makes it absolutely certain that the plesiosaur could not lift its head up swan-like out of the water ".

Trained in Continental philosophy and published on Hegel, Butler is better known for her engagement with feminist theory and as the ' mother ' ( along with English literature scholar Eve Sedgwick ) of Queer Theory.

* May 9 – The American general John Sedgwick is shot dead during the Battle of Spotsylvania, shortly after he uttered the famous last words: " They couldn't hit an elephant from this distance!

Theorists like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Gayle S. Rubin and Marilyn Frye all write extensively about eroticism from a heterosexist, lesbian and separatist point of view, respectively, seeing Eroticism as a both a political force and cultural critique for marginalized groups, or as Mario Vargas Llosa summarized: " Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me ; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty ".

Sedgwick is a town in Lawrence County, Arkansas, United States.

Andover is a city in Butler and Sedgwick counties in the U. S. state of Kansas.

Andale is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Bentley is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Cheney is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Clearwater is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Colwich is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Eastborough is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Fire service is technically provided by Sedgwick County but because of the long distance from Eastbrough to the Wichita city limits, the Wichita fire department usually responds first in a reciprocal agreement with Sedgwick County.

Garden Plain is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Haysville is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Kechi () is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Maize is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Mount Hope is a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States.

Oaklawn-Sunview is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Sedgwick County, Kansas, in the United States.

* History of Wichita and Sedgwick County Kansas: Past and present, including an account of the cities, towns, and villages of the county ; 2 Volumes ; O. H.

Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area.

As the county seat, Wichita is the administrative center of Sedgwick County.

The zoo is next to Sedgwick county park and Sedgwick County Extension Arboretum.

File: Sedgwick county kansas courthouse 2009. jpg | Old Sedgwick County Courthouse

* History of Wichita and Sedgwick County Kansas: Past and present, including an account of the cities, towns, and villages of the county ; 2 Volumes ; O. H.

* History of Wichita and Sedgwick County Kansas: Past and present, including an account of the cities, towns, and villages of the county ; 2 Volumes ; O. H.

As a relatively young lawyer, Sedgwick with Tapping Reeve pled the case of Brom and Bett vs. Ashley ( 1781 ), an early " freedom suit ", in county court for the slaves Elizabeth Freeman ( known as Bett ) and Brom.

While most counties have only 2 delegates, large counties like Sedgwick and Johnson have dozens of county delegates.

* History of Wichita and Sedgwick County Kansas: Past and present, including an account of the cities, towns, and villages of the county ; 2 Volumes ; O. H.

" Dedicated September 1978, for the promotion of agricultural educational and cultural benefits, in behalf of the people of the world, by the citizens of Sedgwick County, the board of the county commissioners, the Kansas state park and resources authority, the economic development administration and the ozark regional commission of the United States Department of Commerce and the Kansas Coliseum Corporation.