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Herington is a city that straddles the line between Dickinson and Morris counties in east-central Kansas.

Herington was founded by and named for Monroe Davis Herington, a land speculator who bought thousands of acres in the area in the early 1880s and gave land, lots, and cash to lure railroads to his townsite.

In 1887 Herington landed the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Railway and became a major division point, with repair shops, two roundhouses, a freight house, bridge yards, and a limestone depot.

The railroad through Herington became part of the famous Golden State route between Topeka and the Southwest, and the Rock Island Railroad was the town's largest employer for more than 90 years.

Herington's population peaked at 4,519 in 1930, and the 2020 census counted 2,109 residents.

When the Rock Island Railroad shut down on March 31, 1980, about 250 Herington households lost their wage earner in a single blow, though Union Pacific eventually restored roughly 200 railroad jobs in town.

During World War II, Herington Army Airfield was one of only two airfields in the country that processed heavy bombardment crews and staged their equipment for shipment overseas.

The National Old Trails Road, the early transcontinental Ocean-to-Ocean Highway established in 1912, was routed through Herington, and the modern American Discovery Trail still passes through town.

Herington's Carnegie-era public library building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, while the town's 101-year-old Rock Island depot was demolished in 1988.

Recent Census Bureau survey estimates count roughly 980 households in Herington, with an average household size of only about 2.2 people.