Bavaria is a census-designated place in Saline County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60. It lies along K-140 and a Union Pacific Railroad line west of Salina. The place was originally known as Hohneck, after Ernst Hohneck, who settled there in 1865. It was also known as Honek. Bavaria was laid out by E. F. Drake in 1877 an…Bavaria is a census-designated place in Saline County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60. It lies along K-140 and a Union Pacific Railroad line west of Salina. The place was originally known as Hohneck, after Ernst Hohneck, who settled there in 1865. It was also known as Honek. Bavaria was laid out by E. F. Drake in 1877 and named after the State of Bavaria in Germany.