Overland is a city in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States.

[4] The area south of the King's Road to St. Charles[5] was first settled in the early 1820s, when travelers westward from St. Louis would stop overnight at what became known as "The Overland Park".

Daniel Boone constructed a single room cabin here, near the current location of Lake Sherwood and Wyland Elementary School.

The town was incorporated as a fourth class city in 1939 with a mayoral-city council government.

[7] The 1.6-million-square foot six-story Military Personnel Records Center, built in 1956 for the United States Department of Defense, later became part of the National Archives and Records Service in the General Services Administration.

On July 12, 1973, a huge fire destroyed an estimated 16 to 18 million personnel files, mostly for the 50 years prior to 1963.

The incident was believed to be the largest single loss of government records in the country's history.

[10] The 2020 United States census[12] counted 15,955 people, 6,351 households, and 3,758 families in Overland.

Of all households, 33.8% consisted of individuals and 14.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

30.8% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

29.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Overland was the location of the National Personnel Records Center, which houses discharged and retired service records of all branches of the United States armed forces.

The city was also the location of the Army Human Resources Command (HRC), prior to the facility's closing as a result of the military's 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process.

The former Army HRC building is now called the Charles F. Prevedel Federal Building and is home to offices of the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Agriculture.