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Cheney is a city in western Sedgwick County, Kansas, about 25 miles west of Wichita.

Cheney was founded in August 1883 and named after Benjamin P. Cheney, a stockholder in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Cheney grew up as a station and shipping point on the Wichita and Pratt division of the Santa Fe Railway, and its first post office opened in September 1883.

The 2020 census counted 2,181 people in Cheney, up from 2,094 residents in 773 households in the 2010 census.

Since 1940, Cheney has hosted the Sedgwick County Fair, even though it is one of the smaller towns in a county dominated by Wichita, the largest city in Kansas.

The Sedgwick County Fair exists largely because of Cheney newspaper editor Floyd Souders, who organized the fair association in 1939 and also founded the Souders Historical Museum, a farm and pioneer museum just southwest of town.

Cheney State Park, on the shores of the roughly 9,500-acre Cheney Reservoir northwest of town, is one of Kansas's most popular state parks for camping, fishing, boating, and sailing.

Census Bureau survey estimates count about 860 households in Cheney, with roughly 78 percent of its homes owner-occupied, well above the national homeownership rate.

The city maintains four parks plus a Memorial Park, and its Activities Complex on South Main Street was built as a joint effort of the city, the recreation commission, and local volunteers.