Edwardsville, Kansas
human settlement in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States of America
Edwardsville is a city in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States, and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 4,717.
History
Edwardsville was surveyed in 1869 on land formerly belonging to Half Moon, an Indian chief of the Delawares. It was named for John H. Edwards, a general passenger agent for the Union Pacific Railroad, who later served as a justice of the peace and state senator from Ellis County, Kansas.
Geography
Edwardsville is located at 39°03′48″N 94°48′52″W (39.063428, -94.814347). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 9.36 square miles (24.24 km2), of which 9.04 square miles (23.41 km2) is land and 0.32 square miles (0.83 km2) is water.
Demographics
Edwardsville is part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area and is part of a unified local government, which also contains Kansas City, Kansas, a portion of Bonner Springs, and roughly one quarter of Lake Quivira.
Racial and ethnic composition
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Edwardsville had a population of 4,717, with 1,682 households and 1,181 families. The population density was 521.9 per square mile (201.5/km2), and there were 1,786 housing units at an average density of 197.6 per square mile (76.3/km2).
The median age was 36.9 years.
“Edwardsville, Kansas” enters the record as human settlement in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States of America. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Edwardsville, Kansas and human can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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