Abilene (pronounced / ˈ æ b ɪ l iː n/) [6 ] is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Kansas, United States. [1 ] As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 6,460. [4 ] [5 ] It is home of the Dwight D.
Abilene was typical of a frontier town in what was once the Old West, complete with cowboys and gunfights and is still very much part of the cattle industry.
Abilene, city, seat (1861) of Dickinson county, east-central Kansas, U.S. The city lies along the Smoky Hill River. Settled in 1858 and known as Mud Creek, it was named about 1860 for the biblical Abilene (which means “grassy plain…
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