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Merriam / ˈ m ɛr i ə m / is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, [1] and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 11,098. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Merriam is included in the Shawnee Mission postal designation.
Best Buy Co., Inc. is an American multinational consumer electronics retailer headquartered in Richfield, Minnesota.Originally founded by Richard M. Schulze and James Wheeler in 1966 as an audio specialty store called Sound of Music, it was rebranded under its current name with an emphasis on consumer electronics in 1983.
Johnson County is home to 25 Kansas state representatives and 9 Kansas state senators. 13 out of 25 of Johnson County's representatives are Republicans, as are 6 of the county's 9 senators. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] Numerous Republicans from the area identify as moderates , compared to some of the more ideological hard-liners from other parts of the state.
Shawnee Mission Parkway was once concurrent with K-10 as it followed from K-7 to Merriam Drive. From I-35 to US 56, a part of the route was K-10 Spur. When the current K-10 expressway was originally completed between K-7 and I-435, it was originally signed as K-12.
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The Johnson County Library [23] serves the residents of Johnson County, KS, including Mission, KS. It has thirteen locations county wide. JCL's Antioch Road location in Merriam, KS is just to the west and the Cedar Roe location in Roeland Park, Kansas is just to the north. However, the library does not have a location in Mission proper.
Shawnee Mission / ʃ ɔː n i ˈ m ɪ ʃ ən / is a region of northern Johnson County, Kansas, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area in the United States. Since August 1, 1960, the United States Postal Service has used the name to denote a large postal coverage area (ZIP Codes 662xx) at the northeastern tip of Johnson County.
Seaboard's history is deeply tied to grain. Otto Bresky purchased his first flour mill in Atchison, Kansas, in 1918. During the next 40 years he would purchase additional flour mills, mostly in Kansas, under the name Rodney Milling. In 1959 the company went public through a merger with Hathaway Industries, Inc., a publicly traded company. The ...