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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) Bureau of Water has announced a $3 million investment into Riley County’s water infrastructure. The funds will be used to improve wastewater systems at University Park and Keats.
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Starting July 1, Riley County will have the authority to...
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Riley County Offices. 110 Courthouse Plaza. Manhattan, KS...
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Current Road Construction Projects KDOT - Replacing U.S. 77...
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Riley County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and largest city is Manhattan. [3] As of the 2020 census, the population was 71,959. [1] The county was named after Bennet Riley, the 7th governor of California, and a Mexican–American War hero.
Riley County's founding occurred during the exciting, volatile years shortly before the Civil War. The Indian lands of Kansas Territory were opened to legal settlement after 1854. Land hungry immigrants poured into the Territory, most motivated by a combination of reasons, ideological with the fight to make Kansas a free state, and financial with the prospect of fortune making in the new ...
The Riley County Commissioners meet twice a week to discuss and conduct county business. During these meetings they are responsible for approving the budget, adopting personnel policies and pay plans for all county offices, providing for adequate county government facilities, setting tax levies, determining township boundaries, and making citizen appointments to county boards.
Riley County, established in 1855, was named for General Bennett Riley. He traveled along the Santa Fe Trail around 1829 as the trail’s first military escort. The Kansa Indian Reservation was once in the county, but the Indians were gone by the time Kansas opened for settlement in 1854. During the Bleeding Kansas the county mostly supported ...
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Riley County, Kansas Location. Riley County by L.H. Everts & Co., 1887. Riley County, in northeast Kansas, is one of the original counties organized by the first Territorial Legislature in 1855. The largest city and county seat is Manhattan. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 71,959. Before the opening of the land to white ...
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Riley is a city in Riley County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 938. [3] History. Riley was originally called Union ...
