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Kansas City, city, seat (1866) of Wyandotte county, northeastern Kansas, U.S. It lies at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers and is contiguous with Kansas City, Missouri. When the Lewis and Clark expedition arrived at the river junction in 1806, it was the site of several Osage and Kansa Indian camps; in his journal William Clark described the spot as a desirable location for a fort or trading post. Present-day Kansas City was formed by the consolidation of eight separate towns. The earliest, Wyandotte, was bought from an Indian tribe, laid out in 1857 by a town company, ...(100 of 464 words)

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