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Lenexa, Kansas. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Johnson. Associated ZIP codes: 66215, 66219, 66220, 66227, 66250, 66276, 66285.

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Lenexa is in Johnson County, Kansas.

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66215, 66219, 66220, 66227, 66250, 66276, 66285

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In 1857, twelve years before Lenexa was platted, James Butler Hickok staked a claim to 160 acres at what is now 83rd Street and Clare Road, near the Kansas River and about 20 miles southwest of Westport, Missouri, where the Santa Fe Trail began. The trail wound through the area. On March 22, 1858, Hickok was elected one of the first four constables of nearby Monticello Township. He later scouted for the Free-State Army, became a sharpshooter and won fame as Wild Bill Hickok, one of the best-known figures of the American West.

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At about the same time, a census of the Shawnee in the area listed Na-Nex-Se Blackhoof, widow of Chief Blackhoof, the second signer of the 1854 treaty in which the Kansas Shawnee ceded 1.6 million acres of their reservation to the United States. The Kansas and Neosho Valley Railroad, organized in 1865 and later renamed the Missouri River, Fort Scott and Gulf Railroad, bought a right-of-way from C.A. Bradshaw in 1869 on condition that it build a depot on his land. Bradshaw also sold 10.5 acres to Octave Chanute, a railroad civil engineer, who platted the town that year. According to legend, the town was first to be named Bradshaw, but he modestly declined, and it was named Lenexa, a form of Na-Nex-Se's name. Sources Wikipedia: Lenexa, Kansas

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38.9630280, -94.7399470

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