Kansas City, Kansas

**Kansas City** is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas. It is the county seat of Wyandotte County. Kansas City is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri and is the third largest city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. About two million people live in this region. The city is part of the "Unified Government". This also includes the cities of Bonner Springs and Edwardsville. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 156,607. The city is at Kaw Point, which is the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers.

## History

Kansas City formed in 1868. It was first officially mentioned in October 1872. The Kansas-Missouri border area became the first battlefield in the conflict over slavery that led to the American Civil War. The first city election was held on October 22, 1872. It resulted in the election of Mayor James Boyle. The mayors of the city after its organization have been James Boyle, C. A. Eidemiller, A. S. Orbison, Eli Teed and Samuel McConnell. John Sheehan was appointed Marshal in 1875. He was also Chief of Police. He had the control over five policemen. In June 1880, the Governor of Kansas made the city of Kansas City a city of the second class with the Mayor Samuel McConnell present. James E. Porter was Mayor in 1910.

It was one of the 100 largest cities for many US Census counts, from 1890 to 1960, including 1920, when it had over 100,000 residents for the first time. In 1997, voters approved a proposition to unify the city and county governments.

On March 30, 2011, Internet search company Google Inc. announced that Kansas City had been selected as the site of an experimental fiber-optic network that Google will build at no cost to the city. Kansas City was chosen from a field of 1,100 US communities that had applied for the network. Google plans to have the network in operation by 2012.

## Government

- **Mayor/CEO**
- Tyrone Garner

- **Board of Commissioners**
- At-Large District 1: Melissa Bynum
- At-Large District 2: Tom Burroughs
- District 1: Gayle Townsend
- District 2: William J. Burns
- District 3: Christian Ramirez
- District 4: Evelyn Hill
- District 5: Mike Kane
- District 6: Philip J. Lopez
- District 7: Chuck Stites
- District 8: Andrew Davis

## Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 128.3 sq mi (332.3 km<sup>2</sup>). 124.7 sq mi (323.1 km<sup>2</sup>) of it is land and 3.6 sq mi (9.2 km<sup>2</sup>) of it is water.

### Cityscape

Kansas City is organized into a system of neighborhoods, some with histories as independent cities or the sites of major events.

Neighborhoods of Kansas City, Kansas
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- Downtown Kansas City, Kansas
- Argentine, former home to the silver smeltery for which it was named.
- Armourdale, formerly a city, consolidated with the city of Kansas City in 1886.
- Armstrong, a town absorbed by Wyandotte.
- Bethel
- Fairfax District, an industrial area along the Missouri River.
- Muncie
- Maywood
- Nearman
- Piper
- Pomeroy, late 1800s-early 1900s Train Depot, Trading Post, Saw Mill, and river landing for barges to load-unload.
- Rosedale
- Stoney Point
- Strawberry Hill
- Turner, community around the Wyandotte-Johnson County border to the Kansas River north-south, and from I-635 to I-435 east-west.
- Vinewood
- Wolcott
- Welborn
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#### Parks and parkways

- City Park
- Wyandotte County Park
- Wyandotte County Lake Park

## Climate

Kansas City is near "Tornado Alley", a region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains and Canada meets warm air from the Gulf of Mexico. This situation causes the formation of powerful storms. The most recent tornado to strike Kansas City itself was in May 2003. The region is also prone to ice storms, such as the 2002 ice storm during which hundreds of thousands lost power for days and (in some cases) weeks. The MoKan area was subject to flooding, including the Great Flood of 1993 and the Great Flood of 1951.

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## People

|Demographic profile|2020|2010|1990|1970|1950|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|White|41.0%|52.2%|65.0%|78.9%|79.4%|
|—Non-Hispanic|34.5%|40.2%|61.9%|76.3%|N/A|
|Black or African American|21.5%|26.8%|15.8%|10.7%|9.9%|
|Hispanic or Latino (of any race)|34.6%|27.8%|7.1%|3.2%|N/A|
|Asian|4.8%|2.7%|1.2%|0.1%|−|

As with Kansas City, Missouri, the percentage of the city's biggest ethnic group, non-Hispanic whites, has gone down from 76.3% in 1970 to 40.2% in 2010.

#### Private

- Donnelly College
- University of Saint Mary

#### Public

- Kansas City Kansas Community College
- University of Kansas Medical Center (Home of KU's Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Allied Health)

### Public and private school districts

- Kansas City Kansas Public Schools
- Piper Unified School District #203
- Turner Unified School District #202
- Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas Catholic Schools

### Secondary schools

- Bishop Ward High School, Kansas City
- Fairfax Learning Center
- J. C. Harmon High School
- Kansas City Kansas Community College: Technical Education Center (Formerly Kansas City Kansas Area Technical School, merged with Kansas City Kansas Community College in 2008)
- Piper High School, Kansas City (Piper, Kansas)
- F.L. Schlagle High School, Kansas City
- Kansas State School for the Blind, Kansas City
- Sumner Academy of Arts & Science, Kansas City
- Turner High School, Kansas City (Turner, Kansas)
- Washington High School, Kansas City
- Wyandotte High School, Kansas City

## Sister cities

Kansas City has four sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:

- Linz, Austria
- Karlovac, Croatia
- Limerick, Ireland
- Uruapan, Michoacan, Mexico

## Other websites

- Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas
- Kansas City, KS/Wyandotte County Convention and Visitors Bureau
- Kansas City, Kansas Public Libraries

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Kansas City, Kansas
- **settlement type**: City and county seat
- **nickname**: "KCK"
- **image skyline**: Quality-i70.jpg
- **image caption**: Cityscape of Kansas City, Kansas
- **image flag**: Flag of Wyandotte County, Kansas.svg
- **image map**: Wyandotte_County_Kansas_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Kansas_City_Highlighted.svg
- **map caption**: Location within Wyandotte County, Kansas, Wyandotte County and Kansas
- **image map1**: Kck-map.gif
- **map caption1**: Kansas City map
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: United States
- **subdivision type1**: U.S. state, State
- **subdivision name1**: Kansas
- **subdivision type2**: List of counties in Kansas, County
- **subdivision name2**: Wyandotte County, Kansas, Wyandotte
- **subdivision type3**: List of townships in Kansas, Township
- **established title**: Founded
- **established title1**: Platted
- **established title2**: Municipal corporation, Incorporated
- **established date2**: 1872, 1886
- **named for**: Kansas City, Missouri
- **leader title**: Mayor
- **leader name**: Tyrone Garner (politician), Tyrone Garner (Democratic Party (United States), D)
- **area total sq mi**: 128.30
- **area land sq mi**: 124.74
- **area water sq mi**: 3.57
- **area total km2**: 332.31
- **area land km2**: 323.07
- **area water km2**: 9.24
- **unit pref**: Imperial
- **elevation ft**: 869
- **population as of**: 2020 United States census, 2020
- **population total**: 156607
- **population density sq mi**: auto
- **population density km2**: auto
- **timezone**: Central Time Zone, CST
- **utc offset**: -6
- **timezone dst**: CDT
- **utc offset dst**: -5
- **postal code type**: ZIP codes
- **postal code**: 66101-66113, 66115, 66117-66119, 66160
- **area code type**: North American Numbering Plan, Area code
- **area code**: Area code 913, 913
- **blank name**: Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS code
- **blank info**: 20-36000
- **blank1 name**: Geographic Names Information System, GNIS ID
- **blank1 info**: 478635


## Infobox (ucr)

- **city name**: Kansas City
- **year**: 2012
- **homicide**: 15
- **rape**: 85
- **robbery**: 277
- **aggravated assault**: 500
- **violent crime**: 877
- **burglary**: 1,772
- **larceny theft**: 4,558
- **motor vehicle theft**: 1,208
- **arson**: 69
- **property crime**: 7,538
- **source url**: https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/tables/8tabledatadecpdf/table-8-state-cuts/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_by_kansas_by_city_2012.xls
- **source name**: 2012 FBI UCR Data
- **notes**: 2012 population: 147,201