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Kansas City metropolitan rivers. Little Blue River is a 45.4-mile-long (73.1 km) [1] stream in Jackson County, Missouri, United States, that gave its name to the Battle of Little Blue River during the American Civil War. It rises in the southern Jackson County town of Grandview and empties into the Missouri River just west of the town of Sibley.
Kansas City, Missouri has nearly 240 neighborhoods [1] including Downtown, 18th and Vine, River Market, Crossroads, Country Club Plaza, Westport, the new Power and Light District, and several suburbs.
Martin City is a neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri located along the Missouri and Kansas border in Jackson County in the Kansas City metropolitan area.It was once an unincorporated town, and was annexed by the City of Kansas City in 1963.
The Blue River (also known as the Big Blue River) is a 39.8-mile-long (64.1 km) [3] stream that flows through Johnson County, Kansas, and Jackson County, Missouri, in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The river rises in Johnson County, Kansas at the confluence of Coffee Creek and Wolf Creek near the border of the states of Kansas and Missouri.
MCC is the oldest public college in Kansas City, Missouri, and the first community college established in the state of Missouri. It was founded in 1915 as Kansas City Polytechnic Institute, with its campus at 11th and Locust streets initially offering a junior college program, a teacher training school, a high school, a mechanic arts school, a trade school, and a business training school.
Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop--A History (Oxford University Press, 2006) excerpt; Dulin, Pete. Kansas City Beer: A History of Brewing in the Heartland (Arcadia, 2016). Ehrlich, George. Kansas City, Missouri: an architectural history, 1826-1990 (University of Missouri Press, 1992) Frank, Thomas.
The Kansas River at Lawrence, Kansas, aerial view from the north with Lake View Lake (the oxbow lake in the right foreground) and I-70 crossing. The first map showing the Kansas River is French cartographer Guillaume de L'Isle's "Carte de la Louisiane," which was drawn about 1718.
River Bend is a village in Jackson County, Missouri, United States. The population was 3 at the 2020 census. It is the only part of Jackson County that lies north of the Missouri River. In 1951, the Missouri River was relocated to a new channel, creating River Bend, (also known as Liberty Bend). The county line still follows the original riverbed.