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Clay Center was first settled in 1862. [4] It was named from its position near the geographical center of Clay County. [5] The first post office was established in Clay Center on July 3, 1862. [6] Clay Center was located on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads. [7]
Clay Center Township covers an area of 38.31 square miles (99.2 km 2) and contains one incorporated settlement, Clay Center (the county seat). According to the USGS, it contains one cemetery, Broughton. The streams of Dry Creek, Finney Creek, Lincoln Creek and Spring Creek run through this township.
Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Clay Center . [ 3 ] As of the 2020 census , the county population was 8,117. [ 1 ]
K-82 begins at K-15 south of Clay Center and west of Wakefield in southern Clay County. The highway heads east and crosses Cane Creek on its way to the city of Wakefield, south of which lie the Auld Stone Bard and the Kansas Landscape Arboretum. K-82 enters the city on 10th Street, curves south on Elm Street, and leaves the city along 6th Street.
On the Kansas City–Bonner Springs city line, the two routes intersect US-73 and K-7 at a cloverleaf interchange, where US-24/US-40 joins US-73/K-7 southward toward I-70 and Bonner Springs. At I-70, US-24 and US-40 join the Interstate Highway eastward, while US-73 ends and K-7 continues southward into the core of Bonner Springs.
K-15 once split into two routes near Washington.The K-15W fork is the present-day routing of K-15, while K-15E was redesignated as part of K-148.Before 1988, the section of K-148 from the K-9/K-15 intersection to the Nebraska border was designated as K-15E and the section of K-15 from the K-9/K-148 intersection northward was designated as K-15W.
Kansas: County: Clay: Founded: 1869: ... It is located a few miles southeast of Clay Center. History ... Clay County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT
Clay County: 027: Clay Center: 1857: From unorganized area: Henry Clay, influential U.S. Senator from Kentucky: CY 8,007: 644 sq mi (1,668 km 2) Cloud County: 029: Concordia: 1866: Formed from Washington (Formerly Shirley County) William F. Cloud, Union general in the American Civil War who chiefly fought in Kansas and Missouri: CD 8,854: 716 ...