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Butler County is a county located in South Central Kansas , in the Central United States . As of the 2010 census , the county population was 65,880. Its county seat and most populous city is El Dorado . The county is a part of the Wichita Metropolitan Statistical Area .
19th century It was named in honor of a U.S. Senator from South Carolina , Andrew Butler , who was one of the authors of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 and a strong advocate of Kansas becoming a slave state . In 1877, the Florence, El Dorado, and Walnut Valley Railroad Company built a branch line from Florence to El Dorado , in 1881 it was extended to Douglass , and later to Arkansas City . The line was leased and operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway . The line from Florence to El Dorado was abandoned in 1942. The original branch line connected Florence , Burns , De Graff , El Dorado , Augusta , Douglass , Rock , Akron , Winfield , Arkansas City . In 1887, the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway built a branch line north-south from Herington to Caldwell . This branch line connected Herington , Lost Springs , Lincolnville , Antelope , Marion , Aulne , Peabody , Elbing , Whitewater , Furley , Kechi , Wichita , Peck , Corbin , Wellington , Caldwell . By 1893, this branch line was incrementally built to Fort Worth, Texas .