Overland Park City, Johnson County, Kansas (KS)

Overland Park City

Johnson County, Kansas

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Overland Park City Hall is located at 8500 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park, KS 66212.
Phone: 913‑895‑6000.

Neighborhoods

  • Afton Hill
  • Amber Meadows
  • Antioch Acres
  • Apple Valley Estates
  • Arlington Estates
  • Arrowhead Trails
  • Bedford Courts
  • Bedford Downs
  • Bel Air Heights
  • Bentwood Park
  • Beverly Estates
  • Beverly Estates
  • Birchwood Hills
  • Birchwood Place
  • Blackthorne Estates
  • Blue Valley Common
  • Blue Valley Hills
  • Blue Valley Meadows
  • Bordeaux Condominium
  • Brampton Place
  • Breyfogle Garden
  • Briarford Place
  • Brighton Court
  • Brillhart
  • Brittany Highlands
  • Brittany Park
  • Brittany Pointe
  • Broadmoor Neighbors
  • Brookhaven
  • Brookhighland
  • Brookridge Estates
  • Brookridge West
  • Brookwood Estates
  • Bruce Acres
  • Cambridge Square
  • Camelot
  • Canterbury Estates
  • Chalet
  • Chandler Place
  • Chapel Hill
  • Chase Manor
  • Chatham Court
  • Cherokee Hills
  • Cherokee Hills South
  • Cherry Hills
  • Cloverleaf View
  • Cobblestone Park
  • Coffee Creek Crossing
  • College Meadows
  • College Park
  • College Park Estates
  • Colonial View
  • Colonial Village
  • Colony West
  • Colton Lake Estates
  • Colton Lakes
  • Colton Lakes South
  • Colton Ranch
  • Conser Addition
  • Cottages at Woodridge
  • Cottages of Fairway Woods
  • Country Shire
  • Coventry
  • Craigmont
  • Creekside
  • Creekside Estates
  • Cresta Vista
  • Cross Creek
  • Cunningham Heights
  • Daybreak Ridge
  • Deer Creek
  • Deer Creek Courts
  • Deer Creek Park
  • Deer Creek Reserve
  • Deer Valley
  • Deerbrook
  • Devereaux
  • Dover Estates
  • Eagle Pointe
  • Eastland Meadows
  • Edlunds Resurvey
  • Edson Place
  • Elmhurst
  • Empire Estates
  • Estates of Blue Valley
  • Estates of Nottingham South
  • Executive Hills
  • Fairfield Manor
  • Fairway Woods
  • Fairway Woods North
  • Fern Dell
  • Fern Valley
  • Fieldstone
  • Fontainebleau
  • Fontainebleau East
  • Forest Glen by the Lake
  • Forest Glen Place
  • Forest Oaks
  • Foxfield
  • Galway Domains
  • Garnett Highland
  • Gladacre Meadows
  • Gladacres
  • GlenEagles
  • Glennwood Addition
  • Glennwood Estates
  • Glenwood Heights
  • Glynmor
  • Glynmor Reserve
  • Goodman Heights
  • Gramercy Park
  • Gramercy Place
  • Grant Gardens
  • Grasmere Acres
  • Grayson Mills
  • Grayson Mills of Amesbury Lake
  • Green Meadows
  • Greenbrier
  • Greenbrier Park
  • Greenway Place
  • Greenwich Hills
  • Gregory Meadows
  • Hadley Court
  • Hampton Court Nottingham
  • Hampton Place
  • Hamptonshire
  • Hanover
  • Harmony South
  • Harwycke
  • Hawthorne Place
  • Hawthorne Terrace
  • Hawthorne View
  • Heatherwood
  • Heritage Farms
  • Heritage Hills
  • Hidden Woods
  • Highcroft
  • Highland Acres
  • Highland Plains
  • Highland View
  • Holly Ridge
  • Holmes Crest
  • Hunters Pointe
  • Indian Acres
  • Indian Creek Estates
  • Indian Creek Park Estates
  • Indian Creek Woods
  • Johnson Hills
  • Kensington at St Andrews
  • Kensington Manor
  • Kimberly Downs
  • Kingsridge
  • Kingston by the Park
  • Kingston Lakes
  • Kingston Oaks
  • Kirkbride Place
  • Knightsbrooke
  • Lakeshore Estates
  • Lamar Circle
  • Lancaster
  • Lexington Park
  • Library District
  • Linden Place
  • Lionsgate
  • Loma Vista
  • London Park Condos
  • Loralee Woods
  • Lowell Condo
  • Maple Crest
  • Maple Crest View
  • Marbella
  • Margaritas
  • Marvin Gardens
  • McConnell Heights
  • Meadow Acres
  • Meadowlark Hill
  • Meadows of Blue Valley
  • Metcalf West
  • Milburn Crest
  • Milburn Estates
  • Milburn Fields
  • Milburn Place
  • Milburn View
  • Milburn West
  • Mills Farm
  • Mission Forest
  • Mokaw Circle
  • Mokaw Fields
  • Monticeto Place
  • Montrachet
  • Moody Hills
  • Morningside
  • Morningview
  • Morse Village
  • Morse Village Estates
  • Nall Hills
  • Nallwood Heights
  • North Park
  • Nottingham by the Green
  • Nottingham Court
  • Nottingham Downs
  • Nottingham Estates
  • Nottingham Forest
  • Nottingham Forest S.Nottington
  • Nottingham Forest South
  • Nottingham Lake
  • Nottingham Place
  • Oak Park
  • Oak Park Manor
  • Oak Tree Meadow
  • Oak Tree Pointe
  • Oakbrook Estates
  • Oakshire
  • Oakview
  • Orleans Court
  • Overland Heights
  • Overland Park
  • Overland Park Manor
  • Overland Place
  • Oxford Estates
  • Oxford Mills
  • Oxford Point West
  • Park Crossing
  • Park Estates
  • Park Place
  • Pawnee Manor
  • Pembroke Place
  • Pepper Pointe
  • Pheasant Run
  • Pinebrooke
  • Pinehurst
  • Pinehurst Estates
  • Pinewood North
  • Pleasant Valley Farms
  • Prairie View
  • Proctor Place
  • Quail Ridge
  • Quail Valley
  • Quincy Court
  • Quivira Falls
  • Quivira Farms
  • Ranch Villas at Nall Hills
  • Rancho Santa Fe
  • Ranchview Gardens
  • Rankin Heights
  • Regency at Oak Park
  • Regency by the Lake
  • Regency Park
  • Retreat at Maple Crest
  • Retreat at the Wilderness
  • River Ridge Farms
  • Rolling Woods
  • Rosehaven
  • Round Hill
  • Saddle Hills
  • Santa Fe Hills
  • Santa Fe Trail Lands
  • Santa Fe Vista
  • Scenic Woods
  • Shadow Brook
  • Shannon Valley
  • Sheldon
  • Somerset Brooke
  • Somerset Pointe
  • South Lake
  • Southdale
  • Southern Oaks
  • Southmoor Gardens
  • Southwood
  • St Andrews Court
  • St Andrews Highlands
  • St Andrews Place
  • St Andrews Place Estates
  • Steins
  • Stilwell
  • Stone Haven
  • Stone Post Ranch
  • Stonebridge Court
  • Stonegate
  • Stonegate Reserve
  • Stoneybrook
  • Stratford Place
  • Sumarlee Estates
  • Summercrest
  • Summerfield
  • Summerwood
  • Sun Hill
  • Switzer Lake Estates
  • Sylvan Grove
  • Sylvan Lake
  • The Clearings
  • The Crossings
  • The Estates of Gleneagles
  • The Orchards
  • The Park at Forest Green
  • The Reserve at Heritage156th Street West
  • The Ridge at Pinewood
  • The Tuileries
  • The Village of Deer Creek
  • The Vineyard
  • The Wilderness
  • Timberland Creek
  • Timbers Edge
  • Tomahawk Ridge
  • Tower Grove
  • Town and Country Manor
  • Trail West Estates
  • Tu Lakes
  • Turnberry
  • Twin Oaks
  • Valley View Acres
  • Valleybrooke Estates
  • Vendome
  • Village of Kensington
  • Villas of Fairway Woods
  • Villas of Tamarind
  • Wakefield Estates
  • Walmer View
  • Warrington Estates
  • Waters Edge
  • Wellington Park
  • Wellington Square
  • Wellington West
  • Westbrooke
  • Westbury
  • Westmont
  • Westridge Estates
  • Wheatley
  • Wheatley Farms
  • White Haven
  • Wickford Garden
  • Wilderness
  • Wilderness Valley
  • Williamsbrooke
  • Willow Bend
  • Willowbrook
  • Wilshire Farms
  • Wilshire Park
  • Wilshire South
  • Wilshire Woods
  • Windemere Place
  • Windgates
  • Windham Hill
  • Windham Park
  • Windsor Hills
  • Windsor Manor
  • Windsor Ridge
  • Wolf Valley Ranch
  • Woodland View
  • Woods at Colton Lake
  • Woodstock Park
  • Wycliff
  • Wycliff West
  • Wyngate
  • Wynnewood
  • Youngs Lake
  • Youngs Park

In 1905 William B. Strang, Jr. platted a number of subdivisions along a military highway. One of these he named Overland Park. His vision for this section was for a planned, "park-like" community. From then until his death in 1921, Strang established several housing developments, an interurban railroad and an airfield.

The City of Overland Park was incorporated from Mission Urban Township in 1960 at which time the population was approximately 28,000. By 2010, Overland Park had grown to more than 175,000 residents. [1]

Overland Park's beginnings, around the turn of the 20th century, are still visible in the area known as downtown. Situated between 79th and 80th Streets and a few blocks west of Metcalf, Overland Park's first commercial center began in 1906 with the coming of the Kansas-Missouri Interurban railway, a commuter train connecting Kansas City with the bucolic Johnson County. Here a small, pre-existing farming community blossomed into a suburban settlement with a small business district to sustain it. After World War II, when the major north-south road, previously named Washington Crossing Road, became U.S. 169 the new commercial strip incorporated this old commercial center and its surrounding residential neighborhoods. Today Santa Fe Drive, downtown Overland Park's "Main Street," with its narrow streets, contiguous facades, and tree-lined sidewalks, has nearly been swallowed-up by the gas stations and auto malls of Metcalf Avenue. [2]

  1. City of Overland Park, KS, History of Overland Park, www.opkansas.org, accessed August, 2011.
  2. Daniel J. Carey, Suburban Place? Constructing Place in Overland Park, Kansas, 2008, Masters Thesis, University of Kansas, found at books.google.com, accessed August, 2012.

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