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Oakley is a city in northwest Kansas and the county seat of Logan County, although parts of the city also extend into Thomas and Gove counties.

Oakley was founded in 1884 by Judge Fredman and David D. Hoag in country first traveled by the Smoky Hill Trail, and it went through two names — Carlyle, then Cleveland — before becoming Oakley in 1885.

The final name honors Elizabeth Oakley Gardner Hoag, the mother of co-founder David Hoag.

Oakley was incorporated in 1887, the same year Logan County was organized and named for Civil War General John A. Logan.

The 2020 census counted 2,046 people in 896 households in Oakley — nearly three-quarters of Logan County's entire population of 2,762.

Oakley calls itself the 'Birthplace of the Legend' of Buffalo Bill: in the spring of 1868, about 10 miles west of today's town, William F. Cody out-shot fellow buffalo hunter William Comstock 69 to 46 in an eight-hour contest for the right to the nickname 'Buffalo Bill.'

A twice-life-size bronze of Cody on his horse Brigham taking aim at a running buffalo — sculpted by Charlie Norton, weighing over 9,000 pounds, and dedicated in 2004 — stands at the Buffalo Bill Cultural Center in Oakley and was named one of the 8 Wonders of Kansas Art.

Oakley's Fick Fossil and History Museum displays large Kansas fossils, minerals, and shell-and-mineral folk art collected from the surrounding chalk country.

Logan County is known for a mile-long stretch of Smoky Hill Chalk bluffs that tower about 100 feet above the Smoky Hill River.

Oakley sits at the junction of Interstate 70, U.S. Route 40, and U.S. Route 83, one of the principal highway crossroads of northwest Kansas.