

Overland Park's last annexation attempt, in 2008, garnered widespread news coverage after massive outcry from affected residents. Population growth in the city can mainly be attributed to the traditional greenfield suburban development, appreciated on the city's annexation map. Overland Park officially became the second largest city in the state, following Wichita, Kansas, after passing Kansas City, Kansas in the early 2000s. Less than thirty years later, the population had nearly quadrupled to 111,790 in 1990, increasing to 173,250 as of the 2010 census. On May 20, 1960, Overland Park was officially incorporated as a "city of first class", with a population of 28,085. He developed large portions of what would later become downtown Overland Park. arrived and began to plot subdivisions along an old military roadway, which later became the city's principal thoroughfare. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 197,238 with daytime populations exceeding 220,000 due to commuting. It is one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area along with being more densely populated than and the largest suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. Overland Park ( OH-vər-lend PARK) is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, and the second-most populous city in the state of Kansas.
