About

In 1879, Chicago land developers Mr. Warren and Mr. Keeney, having purchased a square mile of land from the United Pacific Railroad earlier in the 1870s, founded our town.  With its brick streets and Train Depot, it was named WaKeeney and is still today the county seat of Trego County.  WaKeeney is not an Indian name; it’s simply a combination of the two founders’ last names.  Originally, the names were hyphenated but later changed to a capital K, resulting in the name WaKeeney as we know it today.