Important Cities and Towns
See also: List of cities in KansasCity | Population* | Growth rate** | Metro area | |
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1 | Wichita | 382,368 | 11.1% | Wichita |
2 | Overland Park | 173,372 | 16.3% | Kansas City, MO-KS |
3 | Kansas City | 145,786 | -0.7% | Kansas City |
4 | Topeka | 127,473 | 4.2% | Topeka |
5 | Olathe | 125,872 | 35.4% | Kansas City |
6 | Lawrence | 87,643 | 9.4% | Lawrence |
7 | Shawnee | 62,209 | 29.6% | Kansas City |
8 | Manhattan | 52,281 | 16.6% | Manhattan |
9 | Lenexa | 48,190 | 19.8% | Kansas City |
10 | Salina | 47,707 | 4.4% | ‡ |
11 | Hutchinson | 42,080 | 3.2% | ‡ |
12 | Leavenworth | 35,251 | -0.5% | Kansas City |
13 | Leawood | 31,867 | 15.2% | Kansas City |
14 | Dodge City | 27,340 | 8.6% | ‡ |
15 | Garden City | 26,658 | -6.3% | ‡ |
16 | Emporia | 24,916 | -6.9% | ‡ |
17 | Junction City | 23,353 | 13.0% | Manhattan |
18 | Derby | 22,158 | 24.4% | Wichita |
19 | Prairie Village | 21,447 | -2.8% | Kansas City |
20 | Liberal | 20,525 | 4.4% | ‡ |
21 | Hays | 20,510 | 2.5% | ‡ |
22 | Pittsburg | 20,233 | 5.1% | ‡ |
23 | Newton | 19,132 | 11.3% | Wichita |
24 | Gardner | 19,123 | 103.5% | Kansas City |
25 | Great Bend | 15,995 | 4.2% | ‡ |
*2010 Census **Growth rate 2000–2010 ‡Defined as a micropolitan area |
Kansas has 627 incorporated cities. By state statute, cities are divided into three classes as determined by the population obtained "by any census of enumeration." A city of the third class has a population of less than 5,000, but cities reaching a population of more than 2,000 may be certified as a city of the second class. The second class is limited to cities with a population of less than 25,000, and upon reaching a population of more than 15,000, they may be certified as a city of the first class. First and second class cities are independent of any township and are not included within the township's territory.
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Famous quotes containing the words important, cities and/or towns:
“Minimize, eliminate, delegate, and routinize. Decide whats important and forget the rest”
—Donna N. Douglass (20th century)
“... in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing. When one of us dies, they scarcely know where to bury him.... We have no house, no place, no people of our own. We live in the streets, in the parks, in the theatres. We sit in restaurants and concert halls and look about at the hundreds of our own kind and shudder.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man, robs him of his strength, wit, and versatility, to make a pin- polisher, and buckle-maker, or any other specialty; and presently, in a change of industry, whole towns are sacrificed like ant-hills, when cotton takes the place of linen, or railways of turnpikes, or when commons are inclosed by landlords.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)