Shawnee Mission, Kansas

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Shawnee Mission, Kansas is a name created by the United States Postal Service to describe an area of Johnson County, Kansas that contains numerous towns. The following towns are included in this area.

Fairway
Lake Quivira
Leawood
Lenexa
Merriam
Mission
Mission Hills
Mission Woods
Overland Park
Prairie Village
Roeland Park
Shawnee
Stanley
Westwood
Westwood Hills

The name Shawnee Mission derives from the Shawnee Methodist Mission, a mission to the Shawnee tribe, founded in 1830 in present-day Wyandotte County, Kansas by the Methodist church. The mission was moved to what is now Johnson County in 1839. The county was named for Rev. Thomas Johnson, the first missionary sent by the church. The Shawnee Mission School District encompasses most of the area.

Shawnee Mission is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area.

External links

[Shawnee Indian Mission]

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