Johnson County, Kansas, United States

Details for Johnson County

Name

Johnson County

Place Type

County

Located in

Kansas, United States

County Seat

Olathe

Coordinates

Latitude		38.8666735		38° 52' 00" N
Longitude		-94.8669077		94° 52' 00.9" W

Population

355,054

Elevation

310 m

Surrounding Counties

Wyandotte NE
Clay (Missouri) NE
Jackson (Missouri) E
Cass (Missouri) SE
Miami S
Franklin SW
Douglas W
Leavenworth N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

485010

Histopolis Place ID

878267975

Updated Oct 17, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Johnson County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Johnson County Kansas Genealogy and History with Olathe, Lenexa, Shawnee, Merriam, De Soto, Edgerton, Gardner, Spring Hill... [Hearthstone Legacy Publications]
An informative and historical overview of Johnson County, Kansas with more than 475 pages including more than 225 biographies. Includes history and genealogy for the cities of Olathe, Lenexa, Shawnee, Merriam, De Soto, Edgerton, Gardner, Spring Hi...
http://hearthstonelegacy.com/johnson-county-kansas.htm (26 Dec 2009)

KSGenWeb Archives: Johnson County, Kansas Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
Kansas USGenWeb Archives Johnson County
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ks/johnson/johnson.htm (8 Jan 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Johnson County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=4753&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (29 Nov 2008)

Johnson County, Kansas Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Johnson County, Kansas
http://www.interment.net/us/ks/johnson.htm (16 May 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Johnson County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Kansas > Johnson County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/KS/Johnson/ (19 Dec 2009)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=929 (10 Sep 2009)

Johnson County, Kansas GenWeb - Cemeteries [Blue Skyways]
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/johnson/cemetery/ (26 Mar 2010)

Johnson County, Kansas KS, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Johnson County, Kansas KS, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=4753 (23 Sep 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Johnson County, Kan. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/KS/JO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Johnson County, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_County,_Kansas (11 Aug 2010)

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Surveys in Johnson County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 21 Townships

The Sixth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Johnson County. You can navigate to any of the 21 survey townships that overlap Johnson County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships and Cities of Johnson County

9 Townships, 19 Cities (City is assumed unless noted)

Aubry (township)	De Soto	Edgerton	Fairway
Gardner (township)	Gardner	Lake Quivira	Leawood
Lenexa	Lexington (township)	McCamish (township)	Merriam
Mission	Mission Hills	Mission Woods	Monticello (historical township)
Olathe (township)	Olathe	Overland Park	Oxford (township)
Prairie Village	Roeland Park	Shawnee	Shawnee (historical township)
Spring Hill (township)	Spring Hill	Westwood	Westwood Hills

Cities of Johnson County

20 Cities, 31 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Aubry	B And L Mobile Home Park	Bonita	Bonner Springs (city)
Bosworth Mobile Home Park	Cedar	Chouteau	Clare
Clearview City	Conestoga Estates Mobile Home Park	Countryside	Craig
De Soto (city)	De Soto Mobile Home Park	Edgerton (city)	Edgerton Mobile Home Park
Elmhurst	Fairway (city)	Frisbie	Gardner (city)
Holliday	Hometown Santa Barbara Mobile Home Park	Kenneth	Lackmans
Lake Quivira (city)	Leawood (city)	Lenexa (city)	Merriam (city)
Mission (city)	Mission Hills (city)	Mission Woods (city)	Monticello
Morse	Ocheltree	Olathe (city)	Overland Park (city)
Pingleton Mobile Home Park	Ponchos Mobile Home Park	Prairie Center (historical u.p.)	Prairie Village (city)
Redel	Roeland Park (city)	Shawnee (city)	Spring Hill (city)
Stanley	Stilwell	Warsop Mobile Home Park	Westwood (city)
Westwood Hills (city)	Wilder	Zarah

Cemeteries of Johnson County

43 Cemeteries, 5 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Adams	Antioch	Aubry	Boles
Campbell	Corinth	De Soto	Edgerton
Family	Four Corners	Fuller	Gardner
Highland	Johnson County Memorial Gardens	Lenexa	Linwood
Maupin Family	Monticello	Mount Calvary Catholic	Mt. Calvary Catholic (*)
Murphy	Oak Lawn Memorial Gardens	Olathe	Pleasant Ridge
Pleasant Valley (McCamish Township)	Pleasant Valley (Overland Park)	Pleasant View	Prairie Center
Resurrection	Saint Columbia	Saint Columbine	Saint John Catholic
Saint Joseph Catholic	Shawnee	Shawnee Indian	Shawnee Methodist Mission
Shawnee Mission Memorial Gardens	Smith	Spring Hill	St. Columbia (*)
St. Columbine (*)	St. John Catholic (*)	St. Joseph Catholic (*)	Strang Mausoleum
Tomahawk	Union	Woodland	Woolford Farm Horse

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