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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.
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 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 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 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.
Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships: [2] Shermanville Township — north; Llanos Township — northeastern corner; Union Township — east; Iowa Township — south; Smoky Township — southwestern corner; Itasca Township — west; Voltaire Township — northwest; It lies east of the county seat of Goodland.
The Wakarusa River is a tributary of the Kansas River, approximately 80.5 miles (129.6 km) long, [3] in eastern Kansas in the United States. It drains an agricultural area of rolling limestone hills south of Topeka and Lawrence .
In 1855, Nemaha County was established. The first railroad in Nemaha County was built in 1866. [4] On May 30, 1879, the "Irving, Kansas Tornado" passed through Nemaha county. This tornado measured F4 on the Fujita scale, and had a damage path 800 yards (730 m) wide and 100 miles (160 km) long. Eighteen people were killed and sixty were injured ...