HISTORY
Golden Belt Bank opened its doors as a state-chartered savings and loan on January 20, 1920, with an office located in Ellis, Kansas.
We have been locally owned since our very beginning. The J.W. Nicholson Family opened the savings and loan, and at that time their local ties extended to the lumberyard and another local bank in Ellis, Kansas.
When the Nicholson family sold their interest in Golden Belt Bank in 1972, it was to local investors with established community roots, maintaining the local ownership that still stands today. At that time, its assets totaled only $4 million.
A series of expansions followed with three additional branches being opened, which marked Golden Belt Bank's entrance into the Hays community.
At the same time, Western Plains Service Corporation, a subsidiary wholly-owned by Golden Belt Bank was organized. The subsidiary's mission was to develop land in the Hays and Ellis communities, providing single family lots where residents could build a home.
In the early 80s, Golden Belt Bank opened brand new facilities at their Ellis and Hays locations.
Our growth along with our desire to better serve our customers resulted in additional expansions to our Hays facility. The current, 18,708 sq. ft., facility provides ample space for the support staff necessary to properly serve our customers, especially as technology has involved and become an integral part of the banking experience.
Currently, Golden Belt Bank has approximately $350 million in assets in addition to servicing almost $200 million in home loans.
Stories.
That's how we make a difference.
We've been in the business
of fulfilling dreams for more than a century.
We've done it by getting to know your story.
Even becoming a small part of it.
We're here to make the one story you're writing—
the one life you're living—better.
It's a commitment. A joy.
The way life should be written.
This is banking one story at a time.