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Augusta is a city in Butler County, Kansas, standing at the confluence of the Walnut and Whitewater Rivers on the county's western edge.

Augusta was founded in 1868 and incorporated on February 8, 1871.

The 2020 census counted 9,256 people in Augusta; Census Bureau QuickFacts counts about 3,674 households, with an owner-occupied housing rate of 71.1%.

In 1868 settler C. N. James built a log cabin at the site that served as a general store and trading post, and as the town's first postmaster he named the town and its January 2, 1869 post office for his wife, Augusta James.

The C. N. James Log Cabin still stands in Augusta and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as is the Augusta Historical Museum.

The Augusta townsite was originally Osage hunting and fishing land, opened to settlement by the treaty of 1868.

The first train reached Augusta in 1881, and the discovery of oil and natural gas in Butler County later drove the city's growth and employment.

The Kansas Museum of Military History, devoted to Kansas's military heritage, is located in Augusta.

Butler County, whose seat is El Dorado, is the largest county in Kansas by land area, and Augusta is its western gateway city near Wichita.

Augusta Public Schools operates five elementary schools, a middle school and a high school for the city; the 2010 census counted 9,274 residents in 3,669 households.