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Fort Riley is a United States Army installation located in North Central Kansas, on the Kansas River, also known as the Kaw, between Junction City and Manhattan. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 101,733 acres (41,170 ha) in Geary and Riley counties. [ 1 ]
Fort Riley is a census-designated place (CDP) in Geary and Riley counties in the U.S. state of Kansas, on the grounds of Fort Riley. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population was 9,230. [ 2 ] Fort Riley is part of the Manhattan, Kansas Metropolitan Statistical Area .
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 is home to Fort Riley and Kansas State University.
The following 20 pages use this file: Bala, Kansas; Fort Riley; Fort Riley (CDP), Kansas; Keats, Kansas; Lasita, Kansas; Leonardville, Kansas; List of counties in Kansas
Kansas kept prisoners-of-war from Germany and Italy in fifteen locations in Kansas. Some were kept in the two large Army posts, Fort Riley and Fort Leavenworth. Others were kept in locations scattered through the state, including Camp Phillips, near Smolan, Kansas. Camp Phillips was a camp used to train 75,000 to 80,000 soldiers for a tank ...
Riley was originally called Union, and under the latter name was founded in 1871. It was renamed Riley Center in the late 1870s. [ 4 ] Riley was the name of a railroad employee.
Camp Funston is a U.S. Army training camp located on the grounds of Fort Riley, southwest of Manhattan, Kansas. The camp was named for Brigadier General Frederick Funston (1865–1917). It is one of sixteen such camps that were established at the outbreak of World War I for use as infantry division training camps.
Located north of the junction of the Smoky Hill and Republican rivers, the Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 100,656 acres (407 km 2) in Geary and Riley counties. The fort has a daytime population of nearly 25,000 and includes one census-designated place.