Greeley County, Kansas

Greeley County
Consolidated city-county
Greeley County Courthouse in Tribune (2010)
Location within the U.S. state of Kansas
Kansas's location within the U.S.
Coordinates: 38°28′00″N 101°49′59″W / 38.4667°N 101.833°W / 38.4667; -101.833
Country	United States
State	Kansas
Founded	March 20, 1873
Named for	Horace Greeley
Seat	Tribune
Largest city	Tribune
Area
• Total	778 sq mi (2,020 km2)
• Land	778 sq mi (2,020 km2)
• Water	0.0 sq mi (0 km2)  0.0%
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	1,284
• Density	1.7/sq mi (0.7/km2)
Time zone	UTC−7 (Mountain)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−6 (MDT)
Congressional district	1st
Website	greeleycounty.org

Greeley County (county code GL) is a county in western Kansas. It is in the Central United States. In 2020, 1,284 people lived there.^[1] It is the county with the fewest number of people living in it in Kansas. Its county seat is Tribune. Tribune is also the biggest city in the county.^[2] The county is named after Horace Greeley^[3] of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the New York Tribune. Greeley helped western settlement with the motto "Go West, young man".^[4]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "QuickFacts: Greeley County, Kansas". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved October 1, 2023.
2. ↑ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on 2011-05-31. Retrieved 2011-06-07.
3. ↑ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. p. 143.
4. ↑ Josiah Busnell Grinnell (1891). Men and Events of Forty Years. Boston: D. Lothrop. p. 87. Retrieved 2009-02-13.