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Olathe sits southwest of Kansas City as the seat of Johnson County, a prairie city with a trail past. The Mahaffie Stagecoach Stop and Farm preserves a working 1860s stagecoach stop on the Santa Fe Trail, where wagons once paused on the way west. The trail's ruts and stories run through local history, and the city keeps that pioneer character beside modern neighborhoods, schools, and parks. A former naval air station shaped midcentury growth, and today Olathe balances suburban comfort with open prairie edges and a busy downtown.