- Shawnee Mission, Kansas
Shawnee Mission, Kansas is a name created by the
United States Postal Service to describe an area (Zip Code 662xx) ofJohnson County, Kansas that contains numerous towns. The following towns are included in this area.*Countryside
*Fairway
*Lake Quivira (the northern part is inWyandotte County, Kansas )
*Leawood
*Lenexa
*Merriam
*Mission
*Mission Hills
*Mission Woods
*Overland Park
*Prairie Village
*Roeland Park
*Shawnee
*Stanley
*Westwood
*Westwood HillsThe name Shawnee Mission derives from the
Shawnee Methodist Mission , a mission to the Shawnee tribe, founded in1830 in present-dayWyandotte County, Kansas by theMethodist church. The mission was moved to what is now Johnson County in1839 . The county was named for Rev. Thomas Johnson, the first missionary sent by the church. TheShawnee Mission School District encompasses most of the area.If the independent cities that constitute Shawnee Mission were to incorporate into a single municipality, its 2005 population estimate would be 355,260 (up from 325,147 in 2000), and would surpass
Wichita as Kansas' largest city.Shawnee Mission is part of the
Kansas City Metropolitan Area .External links
* [http://www.kansastravel.org/shawneeindianmission.htm Shawnee Indian Mission]
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