OVERLAND PARK


Meaning of OVERLAND PARK in English

city, Johnson county, northeastern Kansas, U.S. It is a southern suburb of Kansas City, near the Missouri border. Settled in 1906, it lies on the old Santa Fe Trail and was laid out as a stop on an interurban railway from Kansas City to Olathe; later it was the home of the first aviation school in the western United States. The city is now mainly residential and is the site of Johnson County Community College (1967). Inc. city, 1960. Pop. (1990) 111,790.

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