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Caney is a city in Montgomery County in southeastern Kansas, founded in 1869 and named for the Caney River, which flows through this part of the state near the Oklahoma border.

Caney's first post office was established in May 1870, just a year after the town was founded.

The Missouri Pacific Railroad was built through Caney in 1887, and the town was incorporated that same year; by 1905 the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway had also built through town, though only the former Santa Fe tracks remain today, operated by the South Kansas and Oklahoma Railroad.

Caney has long been associated with the Kansas petroleum industry, and in March 1906 a runaway gas well near town burned out of control for 15 days, shooting a flame more than 150 feet into the air and drawing thousands of spectators who arrived on excursion trains.

In 1909 Caney became the site of the original Kanotex Refining Company, an early Kansas oil refiner.

Energy infrastructure still runs through Caney today: a CVR Energy pipeline system can carry up to 145,000 barrels of crude oil per day from Caney to the company's refinery in Coffeyville.

Caney boomed with the early oil and gas fields, reaching a peak population of 3,597 in the 1910 census before settling back as the fields matured.

As of the 2020 census, Caney had 1,788 residents living in 761 households, with 928 housing units in the city.

Caney covers about 1.35 square miles of land in southern Montgomery County, just a few miles north of the Oklahoma state line.

The city has a humid subtropical climate, with hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.