page_title: De Soto, Kansas
section_title: Government
hierarchical_section_title: De Soto, Kansas / Government
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial view of De Soto (2006)
context_page_description: De Soto is a city in Johnson and Leavenworth counties in the U.S. state of Kansas, and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 5,720, and in 2018 the estimated population was 6,443. De Soto was incorporated as a city on October 1, 1897.
context_section_description: The De Soto government consists of a mayor and five council members, with a council appointed president.
  Mayor
  Rick Walker (term expires 2022)
  City Council President
  Lori Murdock (term expires 2024)
  City Council
  Danny Lane (term expires 2024)
  Kevin Ritter (term expires 2021)
  Kevin Honomichl (term expires 2022)
  Rob Daniels (term expires 2022)
  The council meets the first and third Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m and the planning commission meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month. The De Soto City Council is an At-Large Representation, meaning the council serve the entire city, at-large, versus a single designated portion per member. City Hall is located at 32905 West 84th Street.
  De Soto is a Kansas city of the second-class.
  De Soto's ZIP codes are 66018 and 66019. 66019 was activated to serve the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant in 1942, and has been kept in service since. De Soto is the least populous city in the state of Kansas to have more than one ZIP code.
caption: Aerial view of De Soto (2006)
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