Editing Kansas City, Kansas (section)

==History==
{{See also|History of Kansas#Prehistory|label 1=Early Kansas History}}
In October 1872, "old" Kansas City, Kansas, was incorporated. The first city election was held on October 22 of that year by order of Judge Hiram Stevens of the Tenth Judicial District and resulted in the election of Mayor James Boyle. The mayors of the city after its organization were James Boyle, C. A. Eidemiller, A. S. Orbison, Eli Teed, and Samuel McConnell. In June 1880, the [[Governor of Kansas]], [[John St. John (American politician)|John St. John]], proclaimed the city of Kansas City a city of the second class with Mayor McConnell present.

In March 1886, "new" Kansas City, Kansas, was formed through the consolidation of five municipalities: "old" Kansas City, Armstrong, [[Armourdale, Kansas|Armourdale]], Riverview, and Wyandotte. The oldest city of the group was Wyandotte, which was formed in 1857 by [[Wyandot people|Wyandot]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]] and Methodist missionaries.<ref name="book1890"/>{{Rp|370, 384, 388}}

In the 1890s, the city saw an explosive growth in population as a [[streetcar suburb]] of Kansas City, Missouri. This growth continued until the 1930s. It was one of the nation's 100 largest cities for many [[United States Census|U.S. Census]] counts, from 1890 to 1960, including 1920, when it had a population of over 100,000 residents for the first time.<ref>[Media:https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0027/tab15.txt {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080814041159/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0027/tab15.txt |date=August 14, 2008 }}]</ref>

As with adjacent Kansas City, Missouri, the percentage of the city's most populous ethnic group, [[non-Hispanic whites]], has declined from 76.3% in 1970 to 40.2% in 2010.<ref name="KCKFacts">{{cite web |url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/20/2036000.html |title=Kansas City (city), Kansas |work=State & County QuickFacts |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823021817/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/20/2036000.html |archive-date=August 23, 2012  }}</ref><ref name="KansasRace">{{cite web|title=Kansas – Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990 |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812191959/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |archive-date=August 12, 2012 }}</ref> In 1997, voters approved a proposition to unify the city and county governments, creating the Unified Government of Wyandotte County.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Mayors – Unified Government|url=http://www.wycokck.org/Mayor/History.aspx|website=wycokck.org|publisher=Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas|access-date=May 31, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171012041032/http://www.wycokck.org/Mayor/History.aspx|archive-date=October 12, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>