Kansas City (Missouri)

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Kansas City
Nickname : City of Fountains, Heart of America
Kansas City skyline
Kansas City skyline
Seal of Kansas City
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Location in Missouri
Kansas City (Missouri)
Kansas City
Kansas City
Basic data
Foundation : 1853
State : United States
State : Missouri
Counties : Jackson County
Clay County
Platte County
Cass County
Coordinates : 39 ° 7 ′  N , 94 ° 35 ′  W Coordinates: 39 ° 7 ′  N , 94 ° 35 ′  W
Time zone : Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 481,420 (as of 2016)
2,104,509
Population density : 592.8 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 823.7 km 2  (approx. 318 mi 2 ) of
which 812.1 km 2  (approx. 314 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 277 m
Postcodes : 64101–64102, 64105–64106, 64108–64114, 64116–64134, 64136–64139, 64141, 64144–64158, 64161, 64163–64168, 64170–64172, 64179–64180, 64183–64185–, 64187–64188, 6419064188 64199, 64944, 64999
Area code : +1 816
FIPS : 29-38000
GNIS ID : 0748198
Website : www.kcmo.gov
Mayor : Sly James
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Satellite image

Kansas City is the largest city in the US state of Missouri with around 480,000 inhabitants (2016 estimate by the US Census Bureau) . Your urban area extends over the four counties Clay , Cass , Jackson and Platte .

The city is often abbreviated with KCMO by adding the postcode for Missouri to the leading letters of the city name in order to avoid confusion with the much smaller Kansas City in the US state of Kansas, which is directly adjacent on the other side of the state line . Together with its sister city and the surrounding communities, the population of the entire metropolitan area of ​​Kansas City is approximately 2.1 million people; This makes the region the second largest metropolitan area on the Missouri River after Greater St. Louis .

history

The first settlement by Europeans dates back to 1831 when members of the recently founded Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ) from Kirtland, Ohio and northern New York over 20 hectares of land, located around Lake Troost and the Lake Paseo , bought to build Zion there. Eventually, in 1833, due to disputes with other settlers, the Mormons were forcibly evicted from Jackson County . Today, however, a relatively large number of them live in this area again.

Westport Landing at the confluence of the Kansas River and the Missouri River

The economic origin of the city were the Westport docks (Westport Landing) on the Missouri River , which were created from 1831 as a supply and transport base for the region. The so-called "Town Company" bought the land around the port facilities in 1838 and named it Town of Kansas (the name came from the Indian tribe of the Kansa , also called "Kaw" or "Kanza" ). On March 28, 1853, the City of Kansas was incorporated into the state of Missouri. In the first elections in 1853 there were 77 eligible voters out of a population of 2,500. In 1865 the city was reached from the south by the later Missouri Pacific Railroad and in 1869 from the north - over the first bridge over the Missouri - by the Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad . In 1889 the city, which now had around 60,000 inhabitants, was named Kansas City . Westport itself was not incorporated into Kansas City until 1897.

The area was fiercely contested during the American Civil War . The city ​​was connected to the telegraph network in 1858 and to the railroad in 1864. The airfield opened in 1927.

From the early 1920s to 1940, in the era of Tom Pendergast , the city played a prominent role in the history of jazz because there was paid work for musicians despite the Great Depression , Prohibition and New Deal policies . It was there that Kansas City jazz developed its own jazz style.

The later President of the USA, Harry S. Truman , was Judge of the County Court   (roughly equivalent to a judge at a German district court ) in Jackson County and rose through the corruption and favoritism system set up by Tom Pendergast .

In 1981, 114 people were killed in a hotel in Kansas City when it collapsed .

Religions

The city is the seat of the Roman Catholic diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph .

Population development

year Residents¹
1980 448.028
1990 435.146
2000 441.861
2010 459.871
2016 481.420

¹ 1980–2010: census results; 2016: US Census Bureau estimate

Demographics

According to the 2010 census, the population was 54.9 percent white and 29.9 percent African-American; 2.5 percent were of Asian origin. 10.0 percent of the population were Hispanics . The median income per household was 2,015 at 45,821 US dollars . 19.0 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

politics

Town twinning

Sister cities of Kansas City are:

Culture and sights

Kansas City skyline in July 2004

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts , opened in 2011, is the city's center for opera, theater, and ballet and is home to the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, and the Kansas City Ballet . Another major cultural institution is the Kansas City Art Institute , a private art school founded in 1885 .

Museums

The American Jazz Museum is dedicated to the history of Kansas City jazz . The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has an important collection of art from ancient to modern.

Sports

The Kansas City Royals , an MLB baseball team, play in Kansas City . The Kansas City Chiefs NFL team is also based in Kansas City. From 1974 to 1976, the Kansas City Scouts played in the NHL . Sporting Kansas City from Major League Soccer has its headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri, however, plays its home games in Kansas City , Kansas from.

Economy and Infrastructure

The metropolitan area of ​​Kansas City generated an economic output of 129.2 billion US dollars in 2016, making it 31st among the metropolitan areas of the United States.

traffic

The downtown area is surrounded by the Downtown Freeway Loop
Kansas City Union Station

The inner city area has the shape of a rectangle which is bounded on all four sides by highways (Downtown Freeway Loop) . Several bridges cross the Missouri , which runs from west to east in the north of the city , with the most frequented road bridge with over 100,000 vehicles per day being the Christopher S. Bond Bridge to North Kansas City . Interstate 435 forms the outer ring road around the metropolitan area .

tram

The Kansas City tram shut down in 1957. A new 3.5 km long tram line has been in operation since May 6, 2016. The line connects the City Market north of the city center with Union Station, south of the city center. The traffic is carried out with four 3-unit tram trains, type Urbos , made by CAF.

air traffic

In the metropolitan area there is the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport and 25 kilometers northwest of the city center is the Kansas City International Airport .

education

A selection of universities:

The city is also the seat of the National Archives and Records Administration, or NARA for short. This is particularly responsible for the protection and preservation of historical documents.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town:

Climate table

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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: National Weather Service, US Dept of Commerce
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Kansas City, Missouri
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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 1.5 4.8 11.6 18.4 23.5 28.5 31.5 30.2 25.6 19.7 11.4 3.8 O 17.6
Min. Temperature (° C) −8.5 −5.7 0.3 6.6 12.2 17.3 20.1 18.7 13.8 7.6 0.9 −5.6 O 6.5
Precipitation ( mm ) 27.7 27.9 63.8 79.2 128.0 119.9 111.3 101.9 123.4 83.6 48.8 40.1 Σ 955.6
Rainy days ( d ) 4.7 5.3 7.8 8.0 9.6 8.4 5.7 7.5 6.7 6.9 5.8 5.0 Σ 81.4
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Web links

Commons : Kansas City  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical. ( Excel table) (No longer available online.) United States Census Bureau , archived from the original on August 23, 2011 ; Retrieved May 10, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.census.gov
  2. ^ Biography of Harry S. Truman on the website of the Foundation House of History of the Federal Republic of Germany
  3. ^ US Census Bureau: Search Results. Retrieved November 8, 2017 (American English).
  4. ^ US Department of Commerce, BEA, Bureau of Economic Analysis: Bureau of Economic Analysis. Retrieved July 4, 2018 (American English).
  5. ↑ CAF info page: Kansas City Tram , accessed May 7, 2016