Leg 144 KSLN - Salina (USA) to KOJC - Jonhson County (USA)
KSLN - Airport Info
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ICAO code: KSLN
Airport name: Salina Municipal Airport
Location: Salina
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Time zone: UTC-
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
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Salina Info
Salina (city, Kansas), city, seat of Saline County, central Kansas, on the Smoky Hill River; incorporated as a city 1870. Located in a great wheat-producing area, it has grain elevators and flour mills. Manufactures include light bulbs, airplanes, and farm equipment. Kansas Wesleyan (1885), Kansas State University, Salina (1963), and Saint John's Military School (1887) are here. Salina was founded in 1858 by an antislavery group and grew after the arrival of the railroad in 1867. Population 41,843 (1980); 42,303 (1990); 45,679 (2000).
KOJC - Airport Info
ICAO code: KOJC
Airport name: Johnson County Executive Airport
Location: Johnson County
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Time zone: UTC-
Lighted runways : Yes
Maximum runway length: '
Runway surface : Asphalt
Instrument approach (ILS, LOC, LDA, and SDF):
Johnson County Info
All of the 476 square miles that are now Johnson County were once part of the Shawnee Indian reservation. Kansas Territory was opened to settlement with the passing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. At that time, the Johnson County area was crisscrossed by a number of transportation arteries, including the north-south Fort Leavenworth Military Road and the Santa Fe and Oregon-California Trails, major westward migration routes.
Johnson County was created on August 25, 1855 and officially organized as a county in September of 1857. One of the first 33 counties in the state, it was named for the Reverend Thomas Johnson, founder of the Shawnee Methodist Mission.
By the time Johnson County was organized, a number of communities already were established within its boundaries. The towns of Olathe, Spring Hill, Gardner, De Soto, and Gum Springs (present-day Shawnee) were all incorporated during these first few years.
By 1870 there were 13,000 people residing in the county. The population remained relatively stable and the economy agriculturally based until the 1910s, when the northeastern section of the county began to be developed. Lured by innovative, new communities, like Mission Hills, more and more families began to emigrate from established Kansas City neighborhoods into rural areas south and west.
New transportation routes also contributed to early suburban development in the county. In 1904, W.B. Strang began construction of an interurban electric railroad between Kansas City and Olathe. It passed through his newly platted community of Overland Park.
A second interurban railroad, the Hocker Grove Line, was constructed south and west from Kansas City through Merriam and Shawnee.
In the decades following World War II, the county's population exploded. By 1950, the number of county residents had increased to 63,000, from 18,288 in 1910. Since 1950, population and building growth has been stimulated by construction of new transportation corridors such as Interstates 35 and 435, which opened rural areas to new development. By 2000 the county's population had reached 443,000, and projections indicate it will exceed 630,000 by 2020.