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St. John County was established in 1871, and formed from the area to the east of range 38 in what was then part of Wallace County. In 1885, the name was changed to Logan County. [28] Kearney County was established on March 6, 1873, and was dissolved in 1883, with the land area being split between Hamilton and Finney counties. It was ...
Washington County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and largest city is Washington. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 5,530. [1] The county was named for George Washington, the 1st president of the United States.
Washington is a city in, and the county seat of, Washington County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 1,071. [ 3 ]
The Salina micropolitan area is part of North Central Kansas. The region stretches from the Nebraska border in the north to Russell, Ellsworth, Saline, and Dickinson Counties in the south. Its western border includes Smith, Osborne, and Russell Counties, and its eastern border Dickinson, Clay, Washington, and Marshall Counties.
The community is served by Washington County USD 108 public school district, [18] which formed in 2006 by the consolidation of North Central USD 221 and Washington USD 222. [19] The Washington County High School mascot is Tigers. [20] Mahaska High School was closed through school unification. The Mahaska High School mascot was Mahaska Cardinals ...
The state is divided into 105 counties with 628 cities, with its largest county by area being Butler County. [34] Kansas is located equidistant from the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The geographic center of the 48 contiguous states is in Smith County near Lebanon.
A remaining tract of 600 acres (2.4 km 2), the Haskell-Baker Wetlands, is located south of Lawrence near Haskell Indian Nations University. Though the wetlands below the dam are mostly dry now, along the Wakarusa above Clinton Lake , former cropland has been converted into a new wetland area.
Spring River, Kansas. Nearly 75 mi (121 km) of the state's northeastern boundary is defined by the Missouri River.The Kansas River (locally known as the Kaw), formed by the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers at appropriately-named Junction City, joins the Missouri River at Kansas City, after a course of 170 mi (270 km) across the northeastern part of the state.