About Deer Creek
Deer Creek is the area around the former Deer Creek Golf Club in Overland Park, Kansas, in Johnson County. The clubhouse address was 7000 West 133rd Street, Overland Park, KS 66209.
The golf course closed on April 1, 2022. Later that year the city approved a subdivision of single-family homes on its land, at the northeast corner of West 133rd Street and Metcalf Avenue, called The Highlands of Deer Creek, with most of the old course kept as open space.
That subdivision has not been built. As of October 4, 2026, the City of Overland Park’s records list its three final plats as expired and show no homes built on the former course. Ask the city’s planning office about any newer application before you rely on this.
School boundaries, homes association rules and listing availability also change. Confirm them for a specific address, and ask Tom if you want help finding the right office.
The former golf course
Deer Creek Golf Club was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and opened in 1989. It was an 18-hole, par-72 course open to the public, and it hosted the Hogan Tour’s Kansas City Classic. Tomahawk Creek runs along the northern part of the site.
In February 2022 the Overland Park City Council turned down a rezoning for an apartment development on about 11 acres next to the course. The owner, GreatLife KC, then closed the course on April 1, 2022.
On June 13, 2022 the Planning Commission voted 7-2 to approve a preliminary plat and three final plats for The Highlands of Deer Creek:
- 68 single-family lots on about 158 acres;
- about 129 acres left as open space, with Tomahawk Creek kept in open space tracts;
- no homes built in FEMA flood zones;
- five phases, with no plan yet submitted for the fifth.
In July 2022 the City Council voted 7-3 to accept the plat’s right-of-way. In November 2022 a council committee voted 4-2 against the developer’s request for about $15 million in tax increment financing, which was meant to cover stream stabilization along Tomahawk Creek and site work.
Status of the subdivision plan
As of October 4, 2026, none of The Highlands of Deer Creek has been built.
- Plats. The City of Overland Park’s online plan records list the preliminary plat (PLT2022-00027) as approved and all three final plats (PLT2022-00029, 00030 and 00031) as expired. The city’s 2026 records still carry the former course under the parcel numbers it had before the plan.
- Permits. The same records show no building, land disturbance or public improvement permit issued on the plan’s parcels after the 2022 approvals.
- Homes. The city’s development map, updated October 2, 2026, lists 68 homes approved and none built. Its building permit report, which covers permits issued from January 2024 through October 1, 2026, has no permit for a new home inside the plan’s outline.
- Open space. The final plats would have created the open space tracts, and the developer had to file a document saying who would maintain them before a plat could be recorded. With the final plats expired, those tracts have not been created.
- Lawsuit. A resident sued the course owner in April 2022, arguing that an implied restrictive covenant requires the land to stay a golf course. In October 2025 the Kansas City Business Journal reported that a Johnson County judge had dismissed the suit and that the plaintiff had appealed.
The city’s development map classes the former course as a residential development, not as a park. Ask the City of Overland Park’s planning office whether a new or revised plat has been filed.
Where it is and getting around
The former course lies between West 127th Street and West 133rd Street, east of Metcalf Avenue and west of Nall Avenue. It is inside Overland Park, and Leawood begins on the east side of Nall Avenue.
By OpenStreetMap routing, and without traffic, the old clubhouse is about 3 miles and 7 minutes from Menorah Medical Center and 3.8 miles and 9 minutes from Corporate Woods. Overland Park City Hall is about 9.2 miles and 14 minutes away. Downtown Kansas City is about 20 miles and 26 minutes by US-69, the Country Club Plaza about 17 miles and 26 minutes, and Kansas City International Airport about 37 miles and 47 minutes. Rush-hour times will be longer.
Nearby neighborhoods
The former course lies entirely in the 66209 ZIP code and census tract 532.03. The City of Overland Park’s development map lists four residential developments with the Deer Creek name beside it: Deer Creek (226 homes approved), Deer Creek Courts (44), Deer Creek Park (106) and The Village at Deer Creek (137 cluster homes). Harwycke, Glynmor, James Park Estates and Turnberry are also next to the former course.
The Highlands of Deer Creek, the subdivision approved in 2022, was planned with new streets connecting to the existing ones, but its final plats have expired. Subdivision names on deeds and in listings vary from street to street, so check the recorded plat for a specific lot on Johnson County’s AIMS map.
For the wider city, see the Overland Park area guide. Other golf communities nearby include LionsGate, south of 135th Street, and Ironhorse in Leawood.
Home styles and property types
The Census Bureau’s American Community Survey describes tract 532.03. For 2020-2024 it counts about 3,101 homes: 41% single-family detached, about 7% attached, and the rest in buildings with two or more units. The median year built for all homes in the tract is 1999.
The median value of owner-occupied homes in the tract is $671,500 (margin of error $59,766), and for Overland Park as a whole it is $413,600 (ACS 2020-2024). These are owners’ own estimates gathered by the census, not sale prices or appraisals.
To see what is on the market now, search homes for sale in Overland Park, or use the map of current listings near the former course on this page.
Homes association
Homes associations around the former course are separate from the old golf club. The Deer Creek Homes Association has a resident website and names Home Association Solutions as its manager. It does not publish dues there. Other subdivisions beside the course have their own associations.
Check which association covers a specific home: ask the seller for the declaration, bylaws, current dues and any transfer fee, and read the covenants and easements listed in the title commitment. For a lot that backs onto the former course, ask the city what is on file for the land behind it. The 2022 plan showed open space, new lots or new streets there, but its final plats have expired.
Property taxes
Kansas taxes residential property at 11.5% of its appraised value. The assessed value is then multiplied by the mill levy, where one mill is $1 of tax per $1,000 of assessed value.
For 2025, the total levy for Overland Park in Blue Valley USD 229 is 104.463 mills:
| Taxing unit | Mills (2025) |
|---|---|
| Blue Valley USD 229 (including the 20-mill statewide school levy) | 53.618 |
| Johnson County | 17.290 |
| City of Overland Park | 14.540 |
| Johnson County Community College | 7.873 |
| Johnson County Library | 3.817 |
| Johnson County Park and Recreation | 3.023 |
| Blue Valley Recreation | 2.802 |
| State of Kansas | 1.500 |
As an example, a home appraised at $600,000 has an assessed value of $69,000, and 104.463 mills on that comes to about $7,208 a year before any exemptions or special assessments.
The Johnson County Appraiser mails notices of appraised value on or before March 1. An informal appeal must be filed within 30 days of the mailing date (K.S.A. 79-1448), and you can also appeal by paying under protest when the tax is due.
School districts
The former course and the streets around it are in Blue Valley USD 229, according to Johnson County’s tax unit map. Attendance boundaries go by address and can change, so look up each address with the district before you rely on it. District overview: Blue Valley USD 229.
Flood zones
FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer shows a Zone AE flood area, including a regulatory floodway, along Tomahawk Creek through the former course, with areas of 0.2% annual chance flood hazard beside it. The 2022 approval kept new homes out of the FEMA flood zones.
Check any lot on FEMA’s Flood Map Service Center before you make an offer, and ask your lender whether flood insurance will be required. See what to check before buying a golf course home.
