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Osborne is the county seat and largest city of Osborne County in north-central Kansas, sitting at the crossroads of U.S. Highways 24 and 281.

Settlers from southeastern Pennsylvania founded Osborne City in May 1871 and named it after Vincent B. Osborne, a Union Army veteran of the Civil War — Osborne County is named for him, too.

Osborne became the permanent county seat in November 1872, but its first attempt at organizing a city government failed, and it was not legally incorporated until 1878; the word 'City' was dropped from its name by the mid-1890s.

The 2020 census counted 1,335 people in Osborne living in 602 households, down from a peak of 2,120 residents in 1980.

Osborne lies on the north bank of the South Fork Solomon River in the Smoky Hills region of the Great Plains, and the town built its first bridge over the river in 1878.

The Osborne Canal, part of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's Webster Unit irrigation project, runs along the northern edge of the city.

Osborne County is home to the Meades Ranch Triangulation Station, the geodetic center of North America — from 1901 to 1989 this single survey marker in a pasture about 18 miles southeast of Osborne was the reference point from which all land measurements in the United States, and later all of North America, were calculated.

The Meades Ranch station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 as the 'Geodetic Center of the United States,' and a roadside park at the north end of Osborne displays a replica of the marker.

The Osborne County Historical Museum preserves local artifacts, antique farm equipment and Native American items, and keeps a one-room schoolhouse built in 1912 on its grounds.

Osborne students attend Osborne Elementary School and Osborne Junior/Senior High School in the Osborne USD 392 district, and the town's Carnegie library still serves readers downtown.