Salina
a city, and county-seat of Salina co., Kan.; on the Smoky Hill river, and on the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé, and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroads; 100 miles W. of Topeka It contains the Kansas Wesleyan University (M. E.), Normal University, St. John's School (P. E.), street railroads, electric SALISBURY lights, numerous churches, public library, Y. M. C. A. building, National and other banks, and daily and weekly newspapers.
Salina has a foundry and machine shops, wholesale stores, paper, flour, and planing mills, and several grain elevators. Near the city are important gypsum quarries and salt springs. Pop. (1910) 9,678; (1920) 15,085.