Map of Junction City, Kansas

Junction City is a city in and the county seat of Geary County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 22,932. Fort Riley, a major U.S. Army post, is nearby.

Junction City overview:
Name:	Junction City
LSAD Code:	25
LSAD Description:	city (suffix)
State:	Kansas
County:	Geary County
Elevation:	1,106 ft (337 m)
Total Area:	11.21 sq mi (29.02 km²)
Land Area:	11.11 sq mi (28.77 km²)
Water Area:	0.10 sq mi (0.25 km²)
Total Population:	22,932
Population Density:	2,000/sq mi (790/km²)
ZIP code:	66441-66442
Area code:	785
FIPS code:	2035750
Website:	junctioncity-ks.gov

Online Interactive Map

Junction City online map. Source: Basemap layers from Google Map, Open Street Map (OSM), Arcgisonline, Wmflabs. Boundary Data from Database of Global Administrative Areas.

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History

Junction City is so named from its position at the confluence of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers, which forms the Kansas River.

In 1854, Andrew J. Mead of New York of the Cincinnati-Manhattan Company, Free Staters connected to the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company planned a community there called Manhattan (there was also a discussion to call it New Cincinnati). When the steamship Hartford delivering the immigrants could not reach the community because of low water on the Kansas River, the Free Staters settled 20 miles east in what today is Manhattan, Kansas. The community was renamed Millard City for Captain Millard of the Hartford on October 3, 1855. It was renamed briefly Humboldt in 1857 by local farmers and renamed again later that year to Junction City. It was formally incorporated in 1859.

In 1923, John R. Brinkley established radio station KFKB (which adopted the slogan ‘’Kansas First, Kansas Best’’) in nearby Milford, Kansas, using a 1 kW transmitter. It was one of the first radio stations in Kansas. Brinkley used the station to espouse his belief that goat testicles could be implanted in men to enhance their virility.

Among Junction City’s residents is film director Kevin Wilmott, whose movies, including Ninth Street, are set in Junction City. Ninth Street specifically refers to a bawdy area of the community that was frequented by Fort Riley soldiers in the 1960s. In the 1980s a major initiative was undertaken to clean up the Ninth St. area.

Timothy McVeigh rented the Ryder truck he used in the Oklahoma City bombing from an auto body shop in Junction City.

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Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.22 square miles (31.65 km), of which 12.15 square miles (31.47 km) is land and 0.07 square miles (0.18 km) is water.