You are here: Blue Skyways > Kansas > Counties > Saline
Location of Saline County, Kansas
 
 
County Seat: Salina
Founded: 1859
Population:
  · 53,597   (2000)
  · 49,301   (1990)
  · 17,076   (1900)
Area: 720 Square Miles
Standard Abbreviation: SA 

Saline
County

Saline County Courthouse in Salina, Kansas. Photo by Susan Howell.
Saline County Courthouse 

History

Map of Saline County, KS in 1899
Organized in 1859. County Seat, Salina. Named for the Saline river, whose waters drain a large area of the county.
 
Map and text from History of Kansas, Noble Prentis, 1899
 
William G. Cutler's History of Kansas, first published in 1883, tells about early Saline County.
 
There is a section on Saline County in the book Kansas: a Cyclopedia Of State History by Frank Blackmar (1912).
 
The Kansas State Historical Society also has more historical data for Saline County online including a rich bibliography and lists of cemeteries, post offices, and newspapers.
 
The Special Collections of the Ablah Library at WSU contain historical images of Assaria, Brookville, Gypsum, New Cambria, Salina, and Smolan.

Cities, Towns, & Villages of Saline County

                      2000
     Town          Population  ZIP         Year Elevation
     ------------  ----------  -----       ---- ---------
     Assaria              438  67416       1868   1282
     Bavaria                   67401              1270
     Bridgeport                                   1302
     Brookville           259  67425       1869   1369
     Falun                     67442              1352
     Glendale                                     1385
     Gypsum               414  67448              1229
     Hallville                                    1405
     Hedville                                     1271
     Kipp                                         1210
     Marydel                                      1260
     Mentor                    67416              1273
     New Cambria          150  67470              1196
     Salemsborg                                   1330
     Salina            45,679  67401-67402 1858   1225
     Shipton                                      1240
     Smolan               218  67479       1868   1315
     Trenton                                      1225
Census Bureau Profile & Map

Coronado Heights main 'castle'
Coronado Heights--1936 WPA Project .

Special Places in Saline County

Libraries

Museums

Saline County School Systems

Colleges & Universities

Hospitals

Newspapers

More Data About Saline County

Economic Development Health Data

Genealogy

Saline County Offices

For more about Saline County contact:

 
Go to top of page Kansas:   Colleges · Counties · Genealogy · History · Libraries · Museums · Poetry · Towns Go to top of page

Last updated on July 30, 2008 by Brig C. McCoy, COUNTIES@KSLIB.INFO
Hosted by
Link to Blue Skyways - a service of the Kansas State Library
A service of the Kansas State Library  
Kansas on the Net, a subsidiary of 'Kansas Traveler, LLC'
Graphics by John Howell,
photos by Susan Howell,
used by permission.