Names of cities

I grew up in Topeka and we early learned that Topeka was an Indian name meaning "a good place to dig potatoes." They grew lots of potatoes on the banks of the Kaw river than Topeka was on. Now I live in Shawnee and know it is named after the Shawnee Indians. My daughter lives in Fairway and I think that got it's name from all the golf courses that are in that city. Mission is from the Indian Missions, Overland Park for all the wagon trains that went through there. Olathe is an Indian name meaning Beautiful. I'm not sure about Merriam so expect it was named after an early settler who lived there. I know Merriam had a lot of history as they even had an amusement park there that President Teddy Roosevelt visited so it had an early train that use to go to the park to visit the Bear Pits with real bears. My father's parents lived in Scranton, Kansas which had a lot of soft coal and was names after Scranton, Pennsylvania. Now if you go south to Wichita it was an Indian name. We have a busy street named Quivera Road which was named after the exployer who never got furthur north than Wichita. I think Prairie Village was because there were very few trees and lots of open country.