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is a city in Geary County, Kansas, United States. The population was 18,886 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Geary County. Fort Riley, a major U.S. Army post, is nearby.
Junction City is located between the Smoky Hill and Republican on the west side where they merge to form the Kansas River.
In 1854 Andrew J. Mead of New York of the Cincinnati-Manhattan Company, Free Staters connected to the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company planned a community there called
). When the steamship
delivering the immigrants could not reach the community because of low water on the Kansas River, the Free Staters settled 20 miles east in what today is Manhattan, Kansas. The community was renamed
for Captain Millard of the Hartford on October 3, 1855. It was renamed briefly
in 1857 by local farmers and renamed again later that year to Junction City. It was formally incorporated in 1859.
In 1923 John R. Brinkley established Radio Station KFKB (which stood for ‘’Kansas First, Kansas Best’’) using a 1 kW transmitter. It is one of the first -- if not the very first -- radio stations in Kansas. Brinkley used the station to espouse his belief that goat testicles could be implanted in men to enhance their virility.
Among its residents is film director Kevin Wilmott whose movies including Ninth Street are set in Junction City. Ninth Street specifically refers to a bawdy area of the community that was frequented by Fort Riley soldiers in the 1960s.