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is a rapidly growing city located in northwest Johnson County, Kansas, United States and is a western suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. The estimated 2006 population was 59,252. In 2008, Money Magazine ranked Shawnee, KS the 39th best place to live in the United States when comparing cities with population between 50,000 and 300,000.
Shawnee's fur trading and pioneering heritage blends histories of these Kansas Territory townships: Monticello and Shawnee. Additionally, the Kempf Family Homestead and Dairy is a major source of local produce and works with local schools to encourage agricultural growth in the area.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 42.5 square miles (110.2 km²), of which, 41.7 square miles (108.1 km²) of it is land and 0.8 square miles (2.1 km²) of it (1.88%) is water.