Kansas, Oklahoma Kansas, Oklahoma Kansas is a town in Delaware County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 802 at the 2010 census. Kansas is located in southern Delaware County at (36.202423, -94.795122). U.S. Route 412, the Cherokee Turnpike, bypasses the town to the north, with access from Exit 28 (U.S. Route 59) north of the east end of town. The turnpike leads west to Tulsa. To the east, US 412 and 59 lead to the Arkansas border at Siloam Springs. US 59 leads north from the town of Kansas to Jay, the Delaware County seat. Oklahoma State Highway 10 leads south to
History of the Kansas City metropolitan area that the western border of the new state would run from Iowa along the Missouri River to the confluence of the Kansas River (Kaw) and the Missouri River, then as a straight line running south to the northwest corner of Arkansas. As part of the Missouri Compromise in 1821, Congress admitted Missouri to the union as the 24th state and as a slave state. The area of the confluence of the two rivers, alternately known as the village of Kansa, Chouteau's, Quindaro, Westport Landing, Missouri River Quay, Town of Kansas, City of Kansas and finally Kansas City, has been subject