Council Grove
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city and county seat in Morris County, Kansas, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Morris
- Type
- Mayor–Council
- Mayor
- Ryan McDonald
- Total
- 2.05 sq mi (5.32 km )
- Land
- 2.04 sq mi (5.29 km )
- Water
- 0.012 sq mi (0.03 km )
- Elevation
- 1,234 ft (376 m)
- Density
- 1,050/sq mi (405/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6 ( CST )
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (CDT)
- Zip codes
- 66846, 66873
- Fips code
- 20-15925
- Website
- cityofcouncilgrove.com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Council Grove
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Morris County
- Population
- 2140
- Area
- 5.199007
- Elevation
- 377
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Capital of
- Morris County
- Official website
- www.councilgrove.com
- Image
- Aerial photo of Council Grove Kansas 09-04-2013.JPG
- Households
- 927
- Dialing code
- 620
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- Commons category
- Council Grove, Kansas
- inception
- 1847-01-01
- P8168
- Bessie Love
- water as percent of area
- 0.7315
- per capita income
- 26207
- office held by head of government
- mayor
- postal code
- 66846
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Encyclopedic overview
Council Grove is a city in and the county seat of Morris County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,140. It was named after an agreement between American settlers and the Osage Nation allowing settlers' wagon trains to pass westward through the area on the Santa Fe Trail. Pioneers gathered at a grove of trees so that wagons could band together for their trip west.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Council Grove” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.