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Kansas City, Kansas Consolidation + the Unified Government Kansas City, Kansas, was assembled and reassembled twice over more than a century. In March 1886, five separate Wyandotte County municipalities — "old" Kansas City, Wyandotte, Armourdale, Armstrong, and Riverview — merged into a single "new" city of Kansas City, Kansas, instantly quadrupling its population. Then, in 1997, voters consolidated the City of Kansas City, Kansas, and Wyandotte County, Kansas, into a…
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