Editing Wyandotte County, Kansas (section)

==History==
{{See also|History of Kansas}}

===Wyandot tribe===
The county is named after the [[Wyandot people|Wyandot]] (also Wyandott or Wyandotte) Indians. They were called the Huron by the French in Canada, but called themselves Wendat. They were distantly related to the [[Iroquois]], with whom they sometimes fought. They had hoped to keep white Americans out of their territory and to make the [[Ohio River]] the border between the United States and Canada.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pritzker |first=Barry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y84rc5HGKpEC&dq=Origin+of+the+Wyandotte+Huron+Petun&pg=PA682 |title=Native Americans: Southwest - California - Northwest Coast - Great Basin - Plateau |date=March 9, 1998 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9780874368369 |access-date=March 9, 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

One branch of the Wyandot moved to the area that is now the state of Ohio. They generally took the course of assimilation into Anglo-American society. Many of them embraced Christianity under the influence of missionaries. They were transported to the current Wyandotte County in 1843, where they set up a community and worked in cooperation with Anglo settlers. The [[Christian Munsee]] also influenced this area's early settlement.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rogers |first1=Edward S. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dvhyVWgWhyEC&dq=Huron+Petun+nation+Wyandotte&pg=PA59 |title=Aboriginal Ontario: Historical Perspectives on the First Nations |last2=Smith |first2=Donald B. |date=September 9, 1994 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=9781550022308 |access-date=March 9, 2022 |via=Google Books}}</ref>

The Wyandot in Kansas set up a constitutional form of government they had devised in Ohio. They set up the territorial government for Kansas and Nebraska, and elected one of their own territorial governor.

===Other historical facts===
The county was organized in 1859.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CHAPTER XXIV. ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY. |url=http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/wyandott/history/1911/volume1/271.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120120194232/http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/wyandott/history/1911/volume1/271.html |archive-date=January 20, 2012 |access-date=March 9, 2022}}</ref> [[Tenskwatawa]] ([[Tecumseh]]'s brother), "the Prophet", fought at the [[Battle of Tippecanoe]] in 1811. He was buried at Shawnee Native American historical site [[Whitefeather Spring]], at 3818 Ruby Ave. Kansas City, which was added in 1975 to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1975. The Kansas City Smelting and Refining Company employed over 250 men during the 1880s. The ore and base bullion is received from the mountains' mining districts and is crushed, separated and refined.

The [[Grinter Place|Delaware Crossing]] (or "Military Crossing"; sometimes "the [[Secondine]]") was where the old [[Great Trail|Indian trail]] met the waters of the [[Kaw River]]. Circa 1831, [[Moses Grinter]], one of the area's earliest permanent white settlers, set up the [[Grinter Ferry]] on the [[Kansas River]] there. His house was known as the [[Grinter Place]]. The ferry was used by traders, freighters, and soldiers traveling between [[Fort Leavenworth]] and [[Fort Scott National Historic Site|Fort Scott]] on the military road. Others crossed this area on their way to [[Santa Fe, New Mexico|Santa Fe]].

The Diocese of Leavenworth moved its see from Leavenworth, Kansas to Kansas City, Kansas on May 10, 1947. It became an archdiocese on August 9, 1952.

In January 2025, Wyandotte County was the epicenter of the largest [[tuberculosis]] outbreak in United States history according to the [[Kansas Department of Health and Environment]] (KDHE).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/2242/Tuberculosis-Outbreaks |title=Tuberculosis Outbreaks: Kansas City Area TB Outbreak |work=[[Kansas Department of Health and Environment]] (KDHE) |date=January 28, 2025 |access-date=January 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250128201243/https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/2242/Tuberculosis-Outbreaks |archive-date=January 28, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kekatos |first1=Mary |last2=Benadjaoud |first2=Youri |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/kansas-faces-largest-tuberculosis-outbreak-us-history-health/story?id=118174420 |title=Kansas faces largest tuberculosis outbreak in US history: Health officials. So far, there have been 67 confirmed cases of active TB related to the outbreak. |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=January 28, 2025 |access-date=January 28, 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250128201210/https://abcnews.go.com/Health/kansas-faces-largest-tuberculosis-outbreak-us-history-health/story?id=118174420 |archive-date=January 28, 2025}}</ref>