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Olathe (/ oʊ ˈ l eɪ θ ə / oh-LAY-thə) is the county seat of Johnson County, Kansas, United States. [1] It is the fourth-most populous city in both the Kansas City metropolitan area and the state of Kansas , with a 2020 population of 141,290.
The following is a list of mayors of the city of Olathe, Kansas, United States of America. Olathe City Hall building in Kansas, 2009. ... Olathe history; References
The NAS Olathe site was to provide air defense radar coverage of the Kansas City area. The site was to become Olathe Air Force Station . Receiving the Defense Secretary's approval on 21 July, the Air Force directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with construction of a radar station on the western part of the ground station, about a mile ...
Yet, Olathe was founded in 1857, even before Kansas became a state in 1861. “It really has the most dynamic history of Johnson County,” Sheffer said. “There is a lot of interesting history ...
Johnson County is a county in the U.S. state of Kansas, along the border of the state of Missouri.Its county seat is Olathe. [5] As of the 2020 census, the population was 609,863, the most populous county in Kansas. [3]
The I. O. Pickering House is a historic house in Olathe, Kansas, U.S.. It was built in 1878 for Isaac O. Pickering, who served as the mayor of Olathe from 1878 to 1885. [2] It remained in the Pickering family until 1960. [2] It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 1, 1980. [3]
There are over 1,600 buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Kansas listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kansas. NRHP listings appear in 101 of the state's 105 counties . Contents: Counties in Kansas (links in italic lead to a new page)
The Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm Historic Site, locally known as the Mahaffie Farm, is located in Olathe, Kansas. The house was originally a stop along the Westport Route of the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California Trails, which originated in nearby Westport, Missouri. The house's heyday came with large numbers of westbound travelers of the 1860s.