Biohazard Cleanup Near Downtown Kickapoo Site 6 Kickapoo Site 6, KS

Kickapoo Site 6 is a census-designated place in Brown County, Kansas, on the Kickapoo Indian Reservation — it is not an incorporated city, but one of the numbered Kickapoo Site communities the Census Bureau delineates on the reservation, alongside Kickapoo Sites 1, 2, 5 and 7 and the Kickapoo Tribal Center.

Kickapoo Site 6 sits in southwestern Brown County in the western part of the Kickapoo Reservation, within Powhattan Township, and covers just 0.31 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of 1,047 feet.

The 2020 census counted only 13 people in 5 households and 4 families in Kickapoo Site 6, down 13.3 percent from the 15 people counted in 2010, with just 5 housing units in total.

In the 2020 census, 30.77 percent of Kickapoo Site 6 residents were Native American, 46.15 percent reported two or more races, and 23.08 percent were Hispanic or Latino of any race, and the community's median age was 33.5 years.

The Kickapoo Indian Reservation around Site 6 measures roughly five by six miles, about 19,200 acres in Brown County, and the wider reservation counted 3,849 residents in the 2020 census.

The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas is headquartered in Horton and governed by an elected Kickapoo Tribal Council, and its people came to Kansas after ceding their Missouri lands under the 1832 Treaty of Castor Hill, with an 1854 treaty leaving the tribe the western 150,000 acres of its Kansas lands before the reservation was later reduced to its present size.