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Shawnee / ʃ ɔː ˈ n iː / is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is the seventh-most populous municipality in the Kansas City metropolitan area . [ 7 ] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 67,311.
Shawnee County is located in northeast Kansas, in the central United States. Its county seat and most populous city is Topeka, the state capital. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 178,909, [2] making it the third-most populous county in Kansas.
Shawnee Mission / ʃ ɔː n i ˈ m ɪ ʃ ən / is a region of northern Johnson County, Kansas, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area in the United States. Since August 1, 1960, the United States Postal Service has used the name to denote a large postal coverage area (ZIP Codes 662xx) at the northeastern tip of Johnson County.
Lake Shawnee is a man-made lake in Shawnee County in the U.S. state of Kansas, [1] located on the southeastern side of Topeka.The lake started construction in 1935, and finished on September 3, 1939, and was a part of a Works Progress Administration project. [2]
The first counties were established while Kansas was a Territory from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when Kansas became a state. Many of the counties in the eastern part of the state are named after prominent Americans from the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries, while those in the central and western part of the state are named ...
During the American Civil War, Black Bob's band fled from Kansas and joined the "Absentee Shawnee" in Indian Territory to escape the war. After the Civil War, the Shawnee in Kansas were expelled and forced to move to northeastern Oklahoma. The Shawnee members of the former Lewistown group became known as the "Eastern Shawnee".
Located in eastern Kansas, the district encompasses all of Anderson, Franklin, Johnson and Miami counties and parts of Wyandotte County. The district includes most of the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including all of Overland Park, Leawood, Lenexa, Shawnee, Gardner, and Olathe and parts of Kansas City. As currently drawn ...
Topeka, [a] officially the City of Topeka, is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. [9] [10] [1] It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States.