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We would like to provide the residents of  Overland Park  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Overland Park Home page. The Overland Park Home page provides as much information as possible on Overland Park. Knowing Overland Park’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Overland Park’s Home page, you will also find Overland Park’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Overland Park has a population of 193412. 49.4% of Overland Park’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.6 are female. 54.8% of Overland Park is married and 63% own their own home. The Average Home price is $294,879, and the average rent is $1,200. Household median income in Overland Park is $87,629, and the individual median income is $47,114. Overland Park’s Ethnic is the following: White(80.9%), Asian(8.6%), Hispanic(7.1%), Black(4.9%), Multiple(3.7%), Other(1.4%), Native(0.3%), Pacific(0.1%).


In 1905, William B. Strang Jr. arrived and began to plot subdivisions along an old military roadway, which later became the city's principal thoroughfare. He developed large portions of what would later become downtown Overland Park.On May 20, 1960, Overland Park was officially incorporated as a "city of first class", with a population of 28,085.


Less than thirty years later, the population had nearly quadrupled to 111,790 in 1990, increasing to 173,250 as of the 2010 census. Overland Park officially became the second largest city in the state, following Wichita, Kansas, after passing Kansas City, Kansas in the early 2000s. Population growth in the city can mainly be attributed to the traditional greenfield suburban development, appreciated on the city's annexation map.


Overland Park's last annexation attempt, in 2008, garnered widespread news coverage after massive outcry from affected residents. Overland Park now has a combined land area of 75.37 square miles (195.21 km2) and spans nearly the full North-South length of Johnson County. Since the expansion of Overland Park, state legislators have amended laws governing annexations to require a majority vote of affected residents in all future annexations over 40 acres (0.16 km2).On April 13, 2014, a pair of shootings committed by a lone gunman occurred at the local Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and Village Shalom, a local Jewish retirement community.


A total of three people were killed in both shootings. The suspected gunman, described as a man in his seventies, later identified as Neo-Nazi Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., was taken into custody.


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