Garden City, Kansas Garden City, Kansas City Garden City, KS, welcome sign IMG 5933.JPG Garden City is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Finney County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the town/city population was 26,658. The town/city is home to Garden City Community College and the Lee Richardson Zoo, the biggest zoological park in Kansas.
11 Sister metros/cities No other homes were assembled in Garden City until November 1878, when James R.
Following a sustained drought, irrigation appeared in Finney County in 1879, with culmination of the "Garden City Ditch".
Charles Jesse Jones, later known as "Buffalo" Jones, appeared in Garden City for an antelope hunt in January 1879.
Before Jones returned home, the Fulton brothers procured his services to promote Garden City, and especially in trying to influence the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad to put in a switch station.
The barns agreed to place its station at Garden City.
The United States Land Office also positioned at Garden City, and citizens went there to make filings on their land.
Lawyers also appeared in Garden City.
The streets of Garden City were crowded with horses, wagons, buggies and squads of oxen.
There was no town/city water works, so all depended on shallow wells, which were firmly alkaline.
The first copy of "The Garden City Newspaper" appeared April 3, 1879.
The first long-distance telephone service from Garden City was a line nine miles (14 km) long, assembled in 1902.
In the 1970s, Garden City decided (after some debate) to allow a meatpacking plant to be assembled there.
Garden City is at 37 58 31 N 100 51 51 W at an altitude of 2,838 feet (865 m). Located in southwestern Kansas at the intersection of U.S.
Route 83, Garden City is 192 miles (309 km) west-northwest of Wichita, 204 miles (328 km) north-northeast of Amarillo, and 255 miles (410 km) southeast of Denver. The town/city lies on the north side of the Arkansas River in the High Plains region of the Great Plains. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.82 square miles (22.84 km2), all land. Garden City has a semi-arid steppe climate (Koppen BSk) with hot, dry summers and cold, dry winters. On average, January is the coldest month, July is the hottest month, and June is the wettest month. The average temperature in Garden City is 54 F (12 C). Over the course of a year, temperatures range from an average low of 17.7 F ( 7.9 C) in January to an average high of 91.8 F (33.2 C) in July.
The high temperature reaches or exceeds 90 F (32 C) an average of 66 days a year and reaches or exceeds 100 F (38 C) an average of 11 days a year.
The hottest temperature recorded in Garden City was 110 F (43 C) as recently as June 8, 1985; the coldest temperature recorded was 22 F ( 30 C) on March 11, 1948. Garden City receives 19.47 inches (495 mm) of rain amid an average year with the biggest share being received from May through August. The average relative humidity is 62%. There are, on average, 72 days of calculable rain each year.
Climate data for Garden City, Kansas As of the 2010 census, there were 26,658 citizens , 9,071 homeholds, and 6,355 families residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 74.7% White, 4.4% Asian, 2.8% African American, 0.9% American Indian, 14.2% from some other race, and 2.9% from two or more competitions.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $47,975, and the median income for a family was $54,621.
The per capita income for the town/city was $20,066.
In 2017, Albert Kyaw, a translator of the Garden City Public Schools, stated that Garden City was the most ethnically diverse improve in the state of Kansas.
Hispanics and Latinos, including illegal immigrants, came to Garden City beginning in the 1980s due to the establishment of meatpacking plants and partially due to plant management deliberately recruiting them.
After the Fall of Saigon in 1975 immigrants from southeast Asia began coming to Garden City.
Garden City Catholics sponsored an initial group of Vietnamese immigrants that year.
By the late 1980s many Mexican immigrants replaced Vietnamese immigrants who had moved away from Garden City and stopped doing meatpacking work since they had made sufficient cash. Garden City Cooperative grain elevator (2010) The economy of Garden City is driven largely by agriculture.
There are a several feedlots and grain elevators positioned in and around the city.
The cost of living in Garden City is mostly low; compared to a U.S.
Average of 100, the cost of living index for the town/city is 81.6. As of 2012, the median home value in the town/city was $103,400, the median chose monthly owner cost was $1,159 for housing units with a mortgage and $455 for those without, and the median gross rent was $665. According to Garden City's 2012 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: 5 Garden City Community College 385 8 City of Garden City 303 Garden City Administrative Center (2010) Garden City is a town/city of the first class with a commission-manager form of government. The town/city commission consists of five commissioners propel at-large.
The commission sets goals and policy for the city, approves the town/city budget, and directs the town/city manager.
Annually, the commission selects one member to serve as mayor who then presides over commission meetings. The town/city manager implements policies set by the commission and administers the city's operations, departments, and employees. As the county seat, Garden City is the administrative center of Finney County.
Garden City lies inside Kansas's 1st U.S.
Garden City High School is the small-town high school.
Garden City Community College (GCCC) is a fully accredited improve college.
Amtrak station in Garden City (2008) Route 83, a north-south highway, in the southeast part of the city.
50 company route continues west from the intersection into the city.
83 run concurrently around the city's easterly and northern fringe.
Northwest of the city, U.S.
South of the city, a U.S.
83 company route splits off from the chief highway and enters the town/city as Main Street.
50 company route, and the two run concurrently north out of the city, terminating northwest of the town/city at the junction of U.S.
Garden City is also the end of K-156 which enters the town/city from the northeast.
Garden City was positioned on the National Old Trails Road, also known as the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway, that was established in 1912.
Finney County Transit operates City - Link, a enhance transport bus service with four routes in the city, as well as a minibus paratransit service. Bus service is provided daily eastward towards Wichita, Kansas and westward towards Pueblo, Colorado by Bee - Line Express (subcontractor of Greyhound Lines). Garden City Regional Airport is positioned approximately 8 miles (13 km) southeast of the city.
Three rail lines serve Garden City: the La Junta Subdivision of the BNSF Railway, which runs southeast-northwest, and the two lines of the Garden City Western Railway, of which the town/city is the southern and easterly terminus. Amtrak uses the La Junta Subdivision to furnish passenger rail service; Garden City is a stop on the Southwest Chief line.
Garden City is served by St.
The Garden City Telegram journal office (2010) Main article: Media in Garden City, Kansas The Garden City Telegram is the small-town newspaper, presented six days a week. Along with Dodge City, Garden City is a center of broadcast media for southwestern Kansas. Two AM airways broadcasts and seven FM airways broadcasts, including one of the two flagship stations of High Plains Public Radio, broadcast from the city. Garden City is in the Wichita-Hutchinson, Kansas tv market, and four tv stations are licensed to and/or broadcast from the city. These stations include NBC, ABC, and FOX network affiliates, all of which are satellite stations of their respective affiliates in Wichita. The fourth station, KGCE-LD, is a sister station of KDGL-LD in Sublette, Kansas. Garden City Arts is a non-profit organization dedicated to enriching lives and encouraging creativity through the arts.
Initially titled by its developers "The Big Dipper", Garden City's "The Big Pool" is larger than a 100-yard football field, holds 2.2 million gallons of water and is large enough to accommodate water-skiing.
Garden City is depicted in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.
Garden City, Kansas is referenced in Billie Jo Spear's 1969 Billboard nation hit song "Mr.
Walker, It's all over" about a young woman from Garden City who moves to New York City to turn into a big-city secretary and quickly becomes disenchanted.
Garden City is home to the Garden City Wind baseball team, which plays in the Pecos League.
Main article: List of citizens from Garden City, Kansas See also: List of Garden City Community College citizens Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Garden City include novelist Sanora Babb, jazz pianist Frank Mantooth, former Governor of Colorado Roy Romer, football players Thurman "Fum" Mc - Graw and Hal Patterson and experienced boxers Victor Ortiz, and Brandon Rios. Garden City has two sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Downtown Garden City The Finney County Public Library in Garden City Defunct State Theatre in downtown Garden City Community Congregational Church in Garden City Thomas' Episcopal Church in Garden City The former Pleasant Valley School has been relocated to Finnup Park in Garden City.
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Exhibit, Finney County Historical Museum, Garden City, Kansas "Alleged Garden City bombing plot revealed".
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