Lenexa is situated in the state of Kansas and a city in Johnson County. Twelve years before Lenexa was established as a town, John Butler Hickok, who was a settler and staked a claim on the 160 acres of what is now the present corner of the 83rd and Clare Road of the present-day Lenexa. At the time that Hickok filed his claim in 1857, a census was made to the Shawnee Indians who are inhabiting the area were being taken, and one of the residents of the city was Na-Nex-Se Blackhoof who was the widow of Chief Blackhoof who was the second signer of the treaty that was made in 1854 that will cede the 650,000 hectares of the Kansas Shawnee Indian reservation to the government of the United States.