kansas city
Kansas City is a thriving cultural and economic center at the heart of the United States. [1]
Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri. [2]
The largest city in Missouri, Kansas City is the center of a bi-state Metropolitan Statistical Area composed of 15 counties: Platte, Clinton, Caldwell, Clay, Ray, Jackson, Lafayette, Cass, and Bates counties in Missouri and Leavenworth, Wyandotte, Johnson, Franklin, Miami, and Linn counties in Kansas. [1]
The city is part of the “Unified Government ” which also includes the cities of Bonner Springs and Edwardsville. [3]
The city’s municipal water was recently rated the cleanest among the 50 largest cities in the United States, containing no detectable impurities. [...] Walnut St., Downtown Kansas City, Mo. [2]
Location in Wyandotte, County in the state of Kansas. [3]
Further spurring Kansas City’s growth was the opening of the innovative Country Club Plaza development by J.C. Nichols in 1925 as part of his Country Club District plan. [2]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 127.8 sq mi (331.0 km?). [3]
It is officially nicknamed the City of Fountains. [2]
First a trading post and river port settlement, the city developed after the Civil War as a link in the intercontinental railroad network, which led to prosperous grain, livestock, and meat-packing industries. [1]
The first city election was held October 22, 1872, by order of Judge Hiram Stevens of the Tenth Judicial District, and resulted in the election of Mayor James Boyle. [...] As of the 2010 census, the city population was 145,786. [3]
By that time, the Town of Kansas, Westport, and nearby Independence, had become critical points in America’s westward expansion. [2]
The four Industrial art works atop the support towers of the Kansas City Convention Center (Bartle Hall) were once the subject of ridicule but now define the night skyline near the new Sprint Center along with One Kansas City Place (the tallest office tower structure in Missouri), the KCTV-Tower with its hundreds of lit bulbs (the tallest freestanding structure in Missouri), and the Liberty Memorial, a WWI memorial and museum, which flaunts simulated flames and smoke billowing into the night skyline. [1]
Sources:
[1] Kansas City: City Guide, weather and facts galore from …
[2] Kansas City, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[3] Kansas City, Kansas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia