Greeley County, Kansas

Greeley County (county code GL) is a county in western Kansas. It is in the Central United States. In 2010, 1,247 people lived there. It is the county with the fewest number of people living in it in Kansas. Its county seat is Tribune. Tribune is also the biggest city in the county. The county is named after Horace Greeley of Chappaqua, New York, editor of the "New York Tribune". Greeley helped western settlement with the motto "Go West, young man".
Geography.
The U.S. Census Bureau says that the county has a total area of . All of it is land. It is the largest of five United States counties and twelve (Virginia) independent cities that officially have no water area.
Government.
County.
Since January 1, 2009, Greeley County and Tribune have been a unified government.
Presidential elections.
This county is often chooses Republican candidates. The last time a Democratic candidate won the county was in 1976. A Democratic candidate has only won the county three times in its history: 1932 (Franklin D. Roosevelt), 1964 (Lyndon B. Johnson), and most recently in 1976 by Jimmy Carter.