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20-62700 [1] GNIS ID. 476808 [1] Website. salina-ks.gov. Salina / səˈlaɪnə / is a city in and the county seat of Saline County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 46,889. [4] [5] In the early 1800s, the Kanza tribal land reached eastward from the middle of the Kansas Territory.
July 19, 1964 [2] The Whiteford (Price) Archeological Site, designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 14SA1, is an archaeological site located in a rural area between Salina and New Cambria, Kansas, United States. [2] [3] As a National Historic Landmark, it is an important Central Plains habitation site, with an unusually well-preserved burial ...
The Smoky Hill is named from the Smoky Hills region of north-central Kansas through which it flows. American Indians living along the Smoky Hill considered it and the Kansas River to be the same river, and their names for it included Chetolah and Okesee-sebo. Early maps of European explorers called the river (also in combination with the Kansas ...
Saline County, Kansas. / 38.7833°N 97.6667°W / 38.7833; -97.6667. Saline County is located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and largest city is Salina. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 54,303. [1] The county was named after the Saline River .
The region is sparsely populated with numerous communities of varying size, but no large cities. The two largest communities in the Smoky Hills region are Salina, Kansas and Hays, Kansas. Elevations in the Smoky Hills range from about 1,200 feet (370 m) in the river valley near Salina to about 2,400 feet (730 m) at the western edge of the region.
Christ Cathedral (Salina, Kansas) / 38.83917°N 97.61194°W / 38.83917; -97.61194. Christ Cathedral is the cathedral church for the Episcopal Diocese of Western Kansas. It is located in Salina, Kansas, United States, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2010.
UTC−5 ( CDT) The Salina, Kansas micropolitan area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Kansas, anchored by the city of Salina . As of the 2010 census, this micropolitan statistical area (MSA) had a population of 61,697. A July 1, 2012 estimate was 62,060.
Initially described as marine shales, the 500–700 feet (150–210 m) thick Wellington appears mostly as dark gray, thinly bedded soft rock, much of it terrestrial, with sediments from fresh water ponds and salt lakes. There are several variable beds of anhydrite and gypsum and the central body of most of the formation is a massive salt bed.