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Shawnee Mission, Kansas is a name created by the United States Postal Service to denote an area ( ZIP Code 662xx) of Johnson County, Kansas \n that contains numerous towns. Parts of southern Overland Park are not \npart of Shawnee Mission, as they were annexed from unincorporated \nStilwell and use ZIP code 66085. \n
The following towns are included in the area known as Shawnee Mission:\n
The name Shawnee Mission derives from the Shawnee Methodist Mission , a mission to the Shawnee tribe, founded in 1830 in present-day Wyandotte County, Kansas by the Methodist church. The mission was moved to what is now Johnson County in 1839. The county was named for Rev. Thomas Johnson , the first missionary sent by the church and a territorial legislator. The Shawnee Mission School District and Blue Valley School District encompass most of the area.\n