Tribune is located in
Greeley County (of which it is the county seat) and within the
Southwest Region of the state. Situated along the banks of White Woman Creek between
Sharon Springs and
Syracuse at the junction of Highways 27 and 96.
The county is named for Horace Greeley (1811-1872) who was publisher of the New York Tribune and fought for Kansas' entry into the Union as a free state. He was also famous for his boosterism of the West: "Go west young man."