Overland Park, Kansas
As of the 2010 census, the city population was 173,372, growing to 195,494 by 2019. It is the second-most populous city in the state, following Wichita, Kansas, after passing Kansas City in the early 2000s. It was the home to the Sprint World Headquarters Campus until the company’s merger with T-Mobile in 2020. In April 2014, a pair of shootings committed by a lone gunman occurred at the local Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom. A total of three people were killed in both shootings.
About Overland Park, Kansas in brief
As of the 2010 census, the city population was 173,372, growing to 195,494 by 2019. It was the home to the Sprint World Headquarters Campus until the company’s merger with T-Mobile in 2020. Overland Park is located in northeastern Kansas at the junction of Interstate 435 and U.S. Route 69 immediately east of Olathe, the county seat. The city center is roughly 13 miles south-southwest of downtown Kansas City, Missouri. It lies on the northern edge of the Osage Plains a few miles south of the Kansas River. Most of the city lies in the watershed of the Blue River, which flows northeast through the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the City has a total area of 75. 37 square miles of which 74. 84 square miles is land and 0. 53 square mile is water. It is the second-most populous city in the state, following Wichita, Kansas, after passing Kansas City in the early 2000s. It has a humid subtropical climate, typically experiencing hot, humid summers, dry winters, and cold cold winters. The racial makeup of the City was 84% White, 4% African-American, and 4% Hispanic or Latino. The population was 71,443 in the 2010 Census, 71,372 in the 2011 Census, and 76,280 in the 2012 Census. It’s located in Johnson County, which is part of Kansas City metropolitan area, and it borders other communities on all sides. Most overland Park lies north of 159th Street, within the area of Johnson County referred to as Shawnee Mission.
It also lies north and west of Lenexa and Merriam to the northwest, and to the west, and north of LenExa and Mission to the north and south, and east of Shawnee to the northeast. It sits on the part of the Missouri River that runs through Kansas City and Kansas City. It lies in North-South Johnson County and spans nearly the full North-Sections length of the county. In May 1960, Overland park was officially incorporated as a \”city of first class\”, with a population of 28,085. Less than thirty years later, the population had nearly quadrupled to 111,790 in 1990. The growth rate continues on nearly three decades later, increasing to 173,250 as of the2010 census. In total over 8 square miles, though half of the 15 square miles the city originally requested, was added to the city in 2008. In April 2014, a pair of shootings committed by a lone gunman occurred at the local Jewish Community Center and Village Shalom, a local Jewish retirement community. A total of three people were killed in both shootings. The suspected gunman, described as a man in his seventies, later identified as Neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., was taken into custody. In 2018, Overlands Park was awarded \”Best city to raise a family\” and \”One of the most popular cities for millennials\” in 2018.
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