The mayors of the city after its organization were James Boyle, C. A. Eidemiller, A. S. Orbison, Eli Teed, and Samuel McConnell.

The oldest city of the group was Wyandotte, which was formed in 1857 by Wyandot Native Americans and Methodist missionaries.

It was one of the nation's 100 largest cities for many U.S. Census counts, from 1890 to 1960, including 1920, when it had a population of over 100,000 residents for the first time.

Precipitation, both in frequency and total accumulation, shows a marked uptick in late spring and summer.

Kansas City is situated on the edge of the "Tornado Alley", a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains in Canada collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms, especially during the spring.

The 2020 United States census counted 156,607 people, 57,079 households, and 36,392 families in Kansas City.

The sharp rise in the number of workers resulted in Wyandotte County ranking 19th in the nation and 1st in the Kansas City metropolitan area for job growth as of September 28, 2012.

[43] Kansas City is the home to the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant, which manufactures the Chevrolet Malibu and the Cadillac XT4.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons maintains its North Central Region Office in the city.

The adjoining University of Kansas Medical Center, including the schools of medicine, nursing, and allied health, is also among the city's largest employers (with a student population of about 3,000).

Anchored by the Kansas Speedway, tenants include Hollywood Casino,[45] The Legends At Village West, AMC Theatres IMAX, Cabela's, Nebraska Furniture Mart, Great Wolf Lodge, Monarchs Stadium, the home stadium of the Kansas City Monarchs of the American Association of Professional Baseball, over three dozen restaurants, and Children's Mercy Park, the home stadium of the Sporting Kansas City Major League Soccer franchise.

[46] Piper, Kansas, became the first full community in the nation (based on actual residential votes and pre-registration counts) to have residential broadband internet network infrastructures using fiber-optic communication of 1 Gbit/s download and upload speeds provided by Google Fiber.

The Kansas Legislature passed enabling legislation in 1997, and voters approved the consolidation proposal the same year.

The department has 18 fire stations in the city and covers an area of approximately 127 square miles.

[49] Of the statistics available in 2000 based on data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as part of its Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which represent from arrests made by State and local law enforcement agencies as reported to the FBI, there were a total of 696 incidents.

[50] Retired KCK police detective Roger Golubski had been accused of sexual assault, protecting organized crime, and obtaining convictions on falsified evidence and coerced perjury.

[52] On September 15, 2022, Golubski was indicted by a federal grand jury in Topeka, Kansas,[53] and arrested on six counts of sexual assault under color of law.

[54] Another three-count federal indictment was unsealed November 14, almost two months later: Golubski and three other men—Cecil Brooks, LeMark Roberson, and Richard Robinson—were charged with conspiring, decades ago, to keep young women as sex slaves.

[55] At the time of this indictment, Brooks was in a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas; the locations of the others were unavailable.

[56] Golubski did not face trial for the federal case regarding the alleged abuse and assault of women.

He failed to show up to the beginning of his trial on December 2, 2024 and was found dead at his home, the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

It is located on Mount Marty in Rosedale, overlooking the intersection of Rainbow and Southwest Boulevards.

[64] The library has moved the collections and staff from Argentine to the new South Branch, at 3104 Strong Ave., a few blocks to the west and north, which opened September 26, 2012.

9,[66][67] Granada Theater,[68][69] Hanover Heights Neighborhood Historic District,[70] Huron Cemetery,[71] Judge Louis Gates House,[72] Kansas City, Kansas Hall, Kansas City, Kansas Fire Headquarters, Great Wolf Lodge, Schlitterbahn Vacation Village, Quindaro Townsite,[73][74][75] Sauer Castle,[76] Scottish Rite Temple,[77] Shawnee Street Overpass,[78][79] Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building, St. Augustine Hall, Theodore Shafer House, Trowbridge Archeological Site,[80] Westheight Manor and Westheight Manor District,[81] White Church Christian Church,[82] Wyandotte County Courthouse and the Muncie area.

The major U.S. broadcast television networks have affiliates in the Kansas City market, including WDAF-TV 4 (Fox), KCTV 5 (CBS), KMBC-TV 9 (ABC), KCPT 19 (PBS), KCWE 29 (The CW), KSHB-TV 41 (NBC) and KSMO-TV 62 (MyNetworkTV).

The developer of the planned venue moved the project to the Village West area, near Legends Field, and received the needed approvals in January 2010.

[86] The team's ownership committed to building a soccer specific stadium across the state line in Kansas City, Missouri, on the Berkley Riverfront Park,[87][88] which broke ground on October 6, 2022, with a goal to open by March 2024.

[90] The Kansas Speedway is an auto racetrack adjacent to the Village West area in western Wyandotte County.

The track held its first race on June 2, 2001, when the Winston West Series contested the Kansas 100.

The top-level NASCAR Cup Series holds the annual Hollywood Casino 400 at the track.