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Garden City is a city in and the county seat of Finney County, Kansas, United States. [2] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 28,151. [4] [5] The city is home to Garden City Community College and the Lee Richardson Zoo, the largest zoological park in western Kansas.
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The town of Garden City was founded in 1879 by the cattle firm of Jones and Plummer, who established it as a shipping point for Texas cattle being driven along the Jones & Plummer Trail to Dodge City. [3] Garden City grew rapidly as a railroad hub when the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroads arrived in 1888. [3]
Garden City Township is a township in Finney County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2000 census , its population was 7,400. The population had decreased to 5,761 at the 2010 census .
By 1927, the section of K-156 from Garden City to Great Bend was established as US-50N. K-156 was originally US-156, an intrastate U.S. Highway that was formed in 1957, and ran from Garden City to Great Bend. Between 1966 and 1967, US-156 was extended northeast, along K-45, to I-70 northeast of Ellsworth.
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Garden City USD 457 is a public unified school district headquartered in Garden City, Kansas, United States. [1] The district includes the communities of Garden City , Friend , Pierceville , Plymell , and nearby rural areas.
Along its venture through southern Kansas, US-281 intersects several major east–west routes: first US-54 and US-400, which heads east to Wichita and west to Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal; US-50, which veers east to Hutchinson and west to Garden City; and US-56, heading to Dodge City westbound and Overland Park eastbound.