Kansas City, Kansas

For other uses of "Kansas City", see Kansas City .

Kansas City, Kansas Fountains at Kansas Legends Outlets in the Village West precinct in Kansas City, Kansas Fountains at Kansas Legends Outlets in the Village West precinct in Kansas City, Kansas Official seal of Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City is the third-largest town/city in the state of Kansas, the governmental center of county of Wyandotte County, and the third-largest town/city of the Kansas City urbane area. Kansas City, Kansas is abbreviated as "KCK" to differentiate it from Kansas City, Missouri. It is part of a merged city-county government known as the "Unified Government".

As of the 2010 census, the town/city had a populace of 145,786 residents. It is situated at Kaw Point, which is the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers.

11.2 FC Kansas City 11.3 Kansas City T-Bones In October 1872, "old" Kansas City, Kansas, was incorporated.

In June 1880, the Governor of Kansas proclaimed the town/city of Kansas City a town/city of the second class with Mayor Mc - Connell present.

In March 1886, "new" Kansas City, Kansas, was formed through the consolidation of five municipalities: "old" Kansas City, Armstrong, Armourdale, Riverview, Wyandotte.

In the 1890s, the town/city saw an explosive expansion in populace as a streetcar suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, this expansion continued until the 1930s.

As with adjoining Kansas City, Missouri, the percentage of the city's most crowded ethnic group, non-Hispanic whites, has declined from 76.3% in 1970 to 40.2% in 2010. In 1997, voters allowed a proposition to unify the town/city and county governments creating the Unified Government of Wyandotte County. Kansas City map See also: Neighborhoods of Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas Neighborhoods of Kansas City, Kansas, include the following: Argentine former home to the silver smelter for which it was named; it was merged with Kansas City in 1910.

Armourdale formerly a city, it was merged with the town/city of Kansas City in 1886.

Kansas City lies in the Midwestern United States, as well as near the geographic center of the country, at the confluence of the longest river in the country, the Missouri River, and the Kansas River (also known as the Kaw River).

Winters are cold, with 22 days where the high is at or below the freezing mark and 2.5 evenings with a low at or below 0 F ( 18 C). The official record maximum temperature is 113 F (45 C), set on August 14, 1936, at Downtown Airport, while the official record minimum temperature is 23 F ( 31 C), set on December 22 and 23, 1989. Normal cyclic snow flurry is 13.4 inches (34 cm) at Downtown Airport and 18.8 in (48 cm) at Kansas City International Airport.

The average window for freezing temperatures is October 31 to April 4, while for calculable (0.1 in or 0.25 cm) snowfall, it is November 27 to March 16 as calculated at Kansas City International Airport.

Kansas City is situated on the edge of the "Tornado Alley", a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains in Canada collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, dominant to the formation of powerful storms especially amid the spring.

A several areas of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area have had some harsh outbreaks of tornadoes at different points in the past, including the Ruskin Heights tornado in 1957, and the May 2003 tornado outbreak sequence.

The region can also fall victim to the sporadic ice storm amid the winter months, such as the 2002 ice storm amid which hundreds of thousands lost power for days and (in some cases) weeks. Kansas City and its outlying areas are also subject to flooding, including the Great Flood of 1993 and the Great Flood of 1951.

Climate data for Kansas City, Missouri (Downtown Airport), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1934 present) Climate data for Kansas City Int'l, Missouri (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1888 present) The ethnic composition of Kansas City, Kansas, as of 2010, was as follows: Google Fiber promotes Google Fiber in Kansas City.

The sharp rise in the number of workers resulted in Wyandotte County ranking 19th in the country and 1st in the Kansas City urbane region for job expansion as of September 28, 2012. Kansas City, Kansas, is the home to the General Motors Fairfax Assembly Plant, which manufactures the Chevrolet Malibu and the Buick La - Crosse.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons maintains its North Central Region Office in the city. In addition, Associated Wholesale Grocers and Kansas City Steak Company are based inside the city.

The adjoining University of Kansas Medical Center, including the schools of medicine, nursing, and allied health, is also among the city's biggest employers (with a student populace of about 3,000).

Anchored by the Kansas Speedway, tenants include Hollywood Casino, The Legends At Village West, Cabela's, Nebraska Furniture Mart, Great Wolf Lodge, Community - America Ballpark, the home stadium of the Kansas City T-Bones of the American Association, and Children's Mercy Park, the home stadium of the Sporting Kansas City Major League Soccer franchise.

Kansas City was ranked in 2010 as the #7 best town/city in the U.S.

Average rent in Kansas City is only $788, which is low in relation to the nationwide average of $1,087 spent on rent. On March 30, 2011, Google announced that Kansas City had been chose as the site of an experimental fiber-optic network that it would build at no cost to the city.

Kansas City was chosen from a field of 1,100 U.S.

4 Kansas City, KS School District #500 2,500-4,000 7 Unified Government of Wyandotte Co/KCK / Kansas City, Kansas 1,000-2,499 Kansas City, Kansas, is also home to a library system, with five branch libraries spread throughout Wyandotte County; these include the Main Library, South Branch Library, Turner Community Library, West Wyandotte Library, and the Mr.

The Kansas City, Kansas Public Library was formed in 1895.

In 1899, it came under the authority of the Kansas City, Kansas Public School District Board of Education. Kansas City, Kansas, has a merged city-county government in which the town/city and county have been consolidated into one jurisdiction.

The Kansas City, Kansas Police Department was established in 1898.

The Kansas City, Kansas Fire Department was established on December 25, 1883.

Kansas City River transit was meaningful to early Kansas City, Kansas, as its locale at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas Rivers afforded easy access to trade.

Interstate 70 as it enters Kansas, crossing the Kansas River.

Interstate 635 Connects the Kansas suburbs with Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City International Airport.

US-24-40 Combination of the US-24 and US-40 highways that pass through Kansas City.

K-5 A minor freeway bypassing the north of Kansas City, Kansas, connecting the GM Fairfax plant with I-635.

K-7 A freeway linking Leavenworth County, Kansas, Wyandotte County, Kansas and Johnson County, Kansas.

K-32 A highway that links Leavenworth County, Kansas, Wyandotte County, and Douglas County, Kansas.

Kansas City, Kansas, has a number of buildings that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The town/city is home to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, which covers 12,500 square miles (32,000 km2) in easterly Kansas.

It is a fine example of the Queen Anne Style architecture erected in Kansas City, Kansas.

The Rosedale Arch, dedicated to the men of Kansas City, Kansas, who served in World War I, is a small-scale replica of France's famous Arc de Triomphe.

Other notable points of interest in the Kansas City, Kansas, region include Fire Station No.

9, Granada Theater, Hanover Heights Neighborhood Historic District, Huron Cemetery, Judge Louis Gates House, Kansas City, Kansas Hall, Kansas City, Kansas Fire Headquarters, Great Wolf Lodge, Schlitterbahn Vacation Village, Quindaro Townsite, Sauer Castle, Scottish Rite Temple, Shawnee Street Overpass, Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Building, St.

Main article: Media in Kansas City, Missouri Kansas City, Kansas, is part of a bi-state media market that comprises 32 counties in northeastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri.

The Kansas City media market (ranked 32nd by Arbitron and 31st by Nielsen) includes 10 tv stations, and 30 FM and 21 AM airways broadcasts.

Due to its close adjacency to the Topeka media market, most of the tv and airways broadcasts from that town/city are receivable over-the-air in portions of the Kansas City, Kansas, area.

Kansas City, Kansas is served by the The Kansan, a daily journal which ceased its print printed announcement and became an online-only paper in 2009.

Weekly newspapers include alternative printed announcement The Pitch, faith-oriented journal The Kansas City Metro Voice, The Wyandotte Echo (which focuses on legal news), The Call (which is concentrated on the black community), company journal Kansas City Business Journal and the bilingual printed announcement Dos Mundos.

Broadcast tv networks have affiliates in the Kansas City market; including WDAF-TV 4 (Fox), KCTV 5 (CBS), KMBC-TV 9 (ABC), KCPT 19 (PBS), KCWE 29 (The CW), KSHB-TV 41 (NBC) and KSMO-TV 62 (My - Network - TV).

Kansas City's Children's Mercy Park hosts Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer.

Main article: Sporting Kansas City The Major League Soccer charter Sporting Kansas City (which was originally known as the Kansas City Wiz for its inaugural year in 1996 and the Kansas City Wizards from 1997 to 2010) presently plays its home games at Children's Mercy Park in the Village West district.

The team originally prepared to move to Trails Stadium, a prepared stadium facility in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2011, but the universal was scuttled in 2009.

FC Kansas City is an American experienced women's soccer club based in Kansas City, Kansas.

Kansas City T-Bones The Kansas City T-Bones are an autonomous baseball team in the American Association, which moved to Kansas City, Kansas in 2003 and play their home games at Community - America Ballpark, positioned adjoining to the Village West evolution in Wyandotte County.

Kansas City Kansas Community College Kansas City Kansas Public Schools, USD 500 Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas Catholic Schools Kansas City Kansas Community College: Technical Education Center Piper High School, Kansas City (Piper, Kansas) Wyandotte High School, Kansas City Main article: List of citizens from Kansas City, Kansas Notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Kansas City, Kansas include actor Ed Asner, jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, and Olympic track and field athlete Maurice Greene. ""Images of Kansas City, Kansas", Joe H.

Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas - Historical and Biographical; Goodspeed Publishing Co; 932 pages; 1890. Official records for Kansas City kept at downtown/Weather Bureau Office from July 1888 to December 1933; Downtown Airport from January 1934 to September 1972; and Kansas City Int'l since October 1972.

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Kansas City, Kansas; United States Geological Survey (USGS); October 13, 1978.

Https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=UPs0 - AQAAMAAJ&rdid=book-UPs0 - AQAAMAAJ&rdot=1 Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas: Historical and Biographical.

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"Kansas - Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Enumeration to 1990".

"About Kansas City, Kansas".

Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas.

Kansas City Tornado Almanac, wdaftv4.com.

"Station Name: MO KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN AP".

"Kansas City Daily Climate Records/Normals".

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Official Google Blog: Ultra high-speed broadband is coming to Kansas City, Kansas.

"Unified Government of Wyandotte County / Kansas City, Kansas CAFR" (PDF).

https://kckpl.org/ Kansas City, Kansas Public Library "City of Kansas City, Kansas".

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