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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.
The Johnson County Library [23] serves the residents of Johnson County, KS, including Mission, KS. It has thirteen locations county wide. JCL's Antioch Road location in Merriam, KS is just to the west and the Cedar Roe location in Roeland Park, Kansas is just to the north. However, the library does not have a location in Mission proper.
Shawnee Mission Parkway – Former alignment of K-10 from 1929 to 1983; K-58 from 1956 to 1979; US-56 from 1957 to 1968; K-12 from 1983 to 1998. Serves Shawnee Mission. Troost Avenue – A north-south thoroughfare 11 blocks east of Main Street, named for an early Kansas City settler and dentist, Benoist Troost. The street roughly divides the ...
A Shawnee Indian mission had been established at the present site of Shawnee in 1831. Shawnee was laid out as a town in 1857. [9] Kansas entered the union as a free state on January 29, 1861, to become the 34th state. [10] The declaration of a free state, added to the tension between the anti-slave abolitionists and pro-slave Confederate ...
Oxford Township is one of seven townships in Johnson County, Kansas, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 2,020. ... Shawnee Mission Medical Center;
The community was named after John Roe, an immigrant from Ireland who settled on 267 acres (1.08 km 2) in 1883, on part of which Roeland Park now stands.The Roe Home was built in 1891 and razed in 1958 to make room for the interchange at Roe Boulevard and Shawnee Mission Parkway.
K-12 was decommissioned in 1992. US 50 used to also follow Shawnee Mission Parkway from I-35 into Missouri. When I-435 was completed, US 50 was rerouted to overlap I-435 into Missouri. From Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park to Roe Avenue in Mission, the Shawnee Mission Parkway was assigned as K-58 until its 1979 decommissioning
Mission Creek is a water body west of Topeka, Kansas, United States. The 30-mile-long (48 km) [1] tributary of the Kansas River goes through Wabaunsee County (where it begins) and Shawnee County, Kansas (passing to the west of Topeka in its run to the Kansas). Mission Creek was named for a Kaw mission near the banks. [2]