Well, Kansas City, MO was established in 1850
Posted on: December 11, 2017 at 15:31:16 CT
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4 years before the Kansas Territory was even in existence. So it would have been hard to take a name from something that did not exist. Point being... the river, city, state, etc were all named after the Kansa Native American tribe, not after one or another.