Welcome
The Geary County Conservation is located in East Central Kansas.  It is at the northwest edge of the Flint Hills grasslands areas in Kansas.  The land area of 245,640 acres is approximately 40 per-cent cropland and 60 per-cent grassland. A majority of the operating units in the district are general farms.  Units in the Flint Hills are larger on the average than those on the upland areas west of the grassland area. 

The area now in Geary County was orginally organized as Davis County as first constituted, the county contained 260,480 acres, which were placed in Fort Riley military reservation.  The first settlement in the county was on Lyon Creek in 1854.  Several towns were started which never became a reality, but sometime during the period from 1855 to 1857, towns were established on the present location of Junction City, Milford and Grandview Plaza just east of Junction City.  Townships were organized in 1872 and 1889.  The name of the county was changed to Geary in 1889. 

A Board of Supervisors administer the conservation district's policies and long range plan for protecting the land for this and future generations.  A Supervisor is required to be over 18, a resident of Geary County and dedicated to conservation.  A Supervisor is elected to his position by the landowners and operators that attend the District's annual meeting each year.  Each tern of office is for 3 years.  The Board of Supervisors meet the fourth Thursday of each month to deal with the local resource problems and ways to solve them.



                        Junction City, Kansas
                Funding for this website provided by the State Conservation Commission with appropriations through the Kansas Water Plan.
All photos on this website are the property of the Geary County Conservation District and are not to be reproduced without written permission from                                                                                      the Geary County Conservation District.
Mission Statement:
Established in 1939 the Geary County Conservation District  objective is to promote locally led conservation and to assist landowners and operators apply conservation practices to the land by providing educational and financial assistance and to represent the interest of landusers in the establishment of con-servation policies and programs.

Board of Supervisors:
Chairman      Donald S. Eickholt
Vice-Chairman       George Poland
Secretary      Gary Schellhorn
Treasurer      Charles E. Munson
Member        Keith Ascher

Natural Resources Conservation Service:
District ConservationistKevin Religa
Soil Technician     Nicholas Strawn
Visitors since June 25, 2009.