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Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) is the third-most populous city in Kansas and county seat of Wyandotte County, with a 2020 census population of 156,607, making it one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Located at Kaw Point where the Missouri and Kansas rivers meet, the city traces its origins to Wyandotte, incorporated on January 29, 1859, and was itself incorporated under its current name in October 1872 with Mayor James Boyle as its first elected official. In March 1886, the modern city was formed through consolidation of five municipalities - old Kansas City, Armstrong, Armourdale, Riverview, and Wyandotte - and experienced explosive population growth as a streetcar suburb of Kansas City, Missouri throughout the 1890s-1930s, ranking among the nation's 100 largest cities from 1890 to 1960. The city operates under a consolidated city-county government called the Unified Government, established by voter approval in 1997, and is home to major institutions including the University of Kansas Medical Center and Kansas City Kansas Community College. With a total area of 128.38 square miles, the city has seen significant demographic change, with its non-Hispanic White population declining from 76.3% in 1970 to 40.2% in 2010. Overland Park is the second-most populous city in Kansas with a 2020 census population of 197,238 and the most populous suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, located in Johnson County in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Founded in 1905 by William B. Strang Jr. along a military roadway that became its principal thoroughfare, the city was officially incorporated on May 20, 1960, with a population of 28,085 and experienced rapid growth to 111,790 by 1990 and 173,250 by 2010. Overland Park's expansion through greenfield suburban development and aggressive annexation, including a controversial 2008 expansion that prompted state lawmakers to require majority resident votes for future annexations over 40 acres, resulted in a total land area of 75.37 square miles spanning nearly the full north-south length of Johnson County. Situated at the junction of Interstate 435 and U.S. Route 69, approximately 13 miles south-southwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, the city lies on the northern edge of the Osage Plains near the Kansas River and its tributaries including Turkey Creek, Indian Creek, and the Blue River. The city gained national attention on April 13, 2014, when Neo-Nazi agitator Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. committed fatal shootings at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom retirement community, killing three people before his later conviction and death in prison in 2021. Lenexa is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, bordered by Shawnee, Overland Park, De Soto, and Olathe, with a 2020 population of 57,434 making it the ninth-most populated city in Kansas. The city's history is intertwined with Wild Bill Hickok, who staked a 160-acre claim in 1857 near the Santa Fe Trail 20 miles southwest of Westport, Missouri, and was elected constable of Monticello Township in 1858. Named after Na-Nex-Se Blackhoof, widow of Shawnee Chief Blackhoof who signed the 1854 treaty ceding 1.6 million acres of Kansas Shawnee reservation land to the United States, Lenexa was officially platted in 1869 by railroad engineer Octave Chanute following the Missouri River, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad's purchase of a right-of-way in the area. Covering 34.45 square miles with a population density of 1,685.7 per square mile as of 2020, the city has a median age of 38.4 years with 51.8% married-couple households and an average household size of 2.4 people.