Greeley, KS

Greeley is a city in Walker Township, Anderson County, Kansas, United States. The 2020 census counted 273 residents. Nomadic Native Americans, perhaps the Wichita as early as the 1400s and the Osage by the 1700s, would have been present in the area for many centuries. The Trail of Death relocated the Potawatomie to the area in 1838, and they had established subsistence farming at what would become Greeley prior to the arrival of European-Americans. The short version is that Greeley carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Greeley: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Greeley is located in the Pottawatomie Valley near the confluence of the North Fork and South Fork of Pottawatomie Creek. Several of Greeley's east–west streets are named for Free Staters who were Jayhawkers or were involved in Territorial government during the Bleeding Kansas era.