47 Facts About Kansas City Missouri

Kansas City is the largest city in Missouri by population and area.

Kansas City Missouri is composed of several neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east, and the Country Club Plaza in the south.

Kansas City Missouri established a home for his wife, Josephine, and six children.

Kansas City Missouri found it more convenient to have his goods offloaded at the Prudhomme landing than in Independence.

Kansas City Missouri built the R A Long Building for the Long-Bell Lumber Company, his home, Corinthian Hall and Longview Farm.

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In 2016, Jackson County, Kansas City Missouri, acquired unused rail lines as part of a long-term commuter rail plan.

Kansas City proper is bowl-shaped and is surrounded to the north and south by glacier-carved limestone and bedrock cliffs.

Kansas City is at the confluence between the Dakota and Minnesota ice lobes during the maximum late Independence glaciation of the Pleistocene epoch.

Kansas City is home to significant national and international architecture firms including ACI Boland, BNIM, 360 Architecture, HNTB, Populous.

Since its inception in 1857, Kansas City Missouri Market has been one of the largest and most enduring public farmers' markets in the American Midwest, linking growers and small businesses to the community.

Areas near Downtown Kansas City include the 39th Street District, which is known as Restaurant Row, and features one of Kansas City's largest selections of independently owned restaurants and boutique shops.

Kansas City is located in "Tornado Alley", a broad region where cold air from Canada collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms, especially during the spring.

Kansas City has the second largest Somali and Sudanese populations in the United States.

Between the 2000 and 2010 Census counts, the urban core of Kansas City continued to drop significantly in population.

Kansas City is one of ten regional office cities for the US government.

The Bannister Complex was home to the Kansas City Plant, which is a National Nuclear Security Administration facility operated by Honeywell.

Kansas City Missouri is the only state to have two of the 12 Federal Reserve Bank headquarters .

Kansas City, Missouri is abbreviated as KCMO and the metropolitan area as KC.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, founded in 1958, performs at the Kauffman Center, offers one American contemporary opera production during its season, consisting of either four or five productions.

Kansas City Ballet, founded in 1957 by Tatiana Dokoudovska, is a ballet troupe comprising 25 professional dancers and apprentices.

The first book that detailed the history of the Irish in Kansas City was Missouri Irish: Irish Settlers on the American Frontier, published in 1984.

Kansas City Strip cut of steak is similar to the New York Strip cut, and is sometimes referred to just as a strip steak.

Classic Kansas City-style barbecue was an inner-city phenomenon that evolved from the pit of Henry Perry, a migrant from Memphis who is generally credited with opening the city's first barbecue stand in 1921, and blossomed in the 18th and Vine neighborhood.

Kansas City Missouri renamed it KC Masterpiece, and in 1986, he sold the recipe to the Kingsford division of Clorox.

Professional sports teams in Kansas City include the Kansas City Chiefs in the National Football League, the Kansas City Royals in Major League Baseball and Sporting Kansas City in Major League Soccer .

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Kansas City Wiz became a charter member of Major League Soccer in 1996.

In college athletics, Kansas City has been the home of the Big 12 College Basketball Tournaments.

In 1955, Kansas City became a major league city when the Philadelphia Athletics baseball franchise relocated to the city in 1955.

Kansas City has 132 miles of boulevards and parkways, 214 urban parks, 49 ornamental fountains, 152 ball diamonds, 10 community centers, 105 tennis courts, 5 golf courses, 5 museums and attractions, 30 pools, and 47 park shelters.

Kansas City is home to the largest municipal government in the state of Missouri.

Kansas City holds city elections in every fourth odd numbered year.

Kansas City is the seat of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, one of two federal district courts in Missouri.

Kansas City hosted the 1900 Democratic National Convention, the 1928 Republican National Convention and the 1976 Republican National Convention.

Kansas City is represented by three members of the United States House of Representatives:.

Kansas City is served by 16 school districts including 10 public school districts, with a significant portion being nationally ranked.

Kansas City broadcasting jobs have been a stepping stone for national television and radio personalities, notably Walter Cronkite and Mancow Muller.

Kansas City has been a locale for film and television productions.

Between 1931 and 1982 Kansas City was home to the Calvin Company, a large movie production company that specialized in promotional and sales short films and commercials for corporations, as well as educational films for schools and the government.

Today, Kansas City is home to an active independent film community.

The City Council passed several film tax incentives in February 2016 to take effect in May 2016; the KC Film Office is coordinating its efforts with the State of Missouri to reinstate film incentives on a statewide level.

Kansas City was named as a top city to live and work in as a movie maker in 2020.

Originally, Kansas City was the launching point for travelers on the Santa Fe, Oregon, and California trails.

Missouri and Kansas were the first states to start building interstates with Interstate 70.

Kansas City has a confluence of major U S interstate highways: I-29, I-35, I-49, I-70, I-435, I-470, I-635, and I-670.

Kansas City includes these US highways: US 24, US 40, US 50, US 56, US 69, US 71, and US 169.

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Missouri highways in Kansas City include these: Route 1, Route 9, Route 12, Route 45, Route 78, Route 92, Route 150, Route 152, Route 210, Route 269, Route 283, Route 291, and Missouri Route 350.

The Port Authority of Kansas City is studying running an extension to Berkley Riverfront Park.