Fort Riley, KS

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 2020 census counted 9,230 residents. The Fort Riley Military Reservation covers 101,733 acres in Geary and Riley counties. The Fort consists of six functional areas, including the Main Post, Camp Funston, Marshall Army Airfield, Camp Whitside, Camp Forsyth, and Custer Hill. U.S. Cavalry Museum — housed in the building used as headquarters by George A. Custer, the museum houses exhibits about the United States Cavalry from the Revolutionary War to 1950.

Ingalls and Representative John A. Fort Riley's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Kansas setting. The local scoop is how Fort Riley's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. These routes, a result of the then-popular United States doctrine of " manifest destiny " in the middle of the 19th century, prompted increased American military presence for the protection of American interests in this largely unsettled territory.