Shawnee Mission is a region of northern

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, part of the

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in the United States. Since August 1, 1960, the

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has used the name to denote a large postal coverage area ( ZIP Codes 662xx) at the northeastern tip of Johnson County. It contains numerous towns, and the name was created to structure management of the post offices located therein. Effectively, these towns' post offices are subsidiaries of the Shawnee Mission Main Post Office in

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. Properly, a mailing address may indicate the delivery "place" as either Shawnee Mission, or the actual town name, and be treated the same. The following towns are included in the postal area known as Shawnee Mission: *

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(incorporated into the City of Mission in January, 2003) * Fairway * Lake Quivira (the northern part is in

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) * Leawood * Lenexa *

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* Mission Hills * Mission Woods *

Overland Park Overland Park ( ) is the largest city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and the second-most populous city in the state of Kansas. It is one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the pop ...

(except some southern parts) * Prairie Village *

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* Stanley (unincorporated) * Westwood * Westwood Hills Parts of southern Overland Park are not part of Shawnee Mission, as they were later annexed from the town of

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which was already covered by ZIP Code 66085. Additionally, delivery to the eastern edge of Overland Park was assigned to the Post Office in Prairie Village, with ZIP Code 66208, and the Prairie Village post office was not managed under the Shawnee Mission designation until 2012.

History

The name Shawnee Mission was derived from the

Shawnee Methodist Mission Shawnee Methodist Mission, also known as the Shawnee Mission, which later became the Shawnee Indian Manual Labor School, is located in Fairway, Kansas, United States. Designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1968, the Shawnee Methodist Missi ...

. That historical mission to the

tribe was founded in 1830 by the

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church, in what became

. The mission was moved to what became Johnson County in 1839. Shawnee Mission subsequently became a local, informal designation for the region surrounding the actual mission, especially before the development, expansion, and conjoint boundarying of the various towns in northeast Johnson County. The

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and Blue Valley School District encompass most of the area. Shawnee Mission is part of the

. As of 2015, the estimated combined population of Shawnee Mission's constituent cities is 402,662 (up from 325,147 in 2000). That is greater than the largest city in Kansas, Wichita.

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Shawnee Indian Mission
1839 establishments in the United States Geography of Johnson County, Kansas Kansas City metropolitan area