Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1916

Kansas City, a city of Missouri, the second in population and importance, is in Jackson co., on the right or S. bank of the Missouri River, \ mile below the mouth of the Kansas River. Lat. 39° 8' N. ; Ion. 94° 37' W. It is an important railroad-centre and situated 235 miles (direct) W. by N. of St. Louis. Among the railroads centring here are the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific, the Wabash, etc. Several fine bridges cross the Missouri at this point. The city is mostly built on the top and sides of a steep hill, the site having been originally very rough and uneven. Among the most prominent buildings are the city-hall, court-house, art-museum, Board of Trade, and custom-house. The city has various higher educational institutions (Kan sas City School of Law, University Medical College, Scarritt Training School), opera-house, theatres, etc., and is adorned with three fine parks, — Troost, Fairmount, and Washington. Elevation, 730 feet. The centre of a region of extraordinary agricultural resources and abounding in coal, lead, iron, etc., it has become an important commercial city, doing a very large business in live-stock and grain and in manufacturing railroad-iron, furniture, agricultural implements, paints, linseed oil, car-wheels, flour, etc. In its vast slaughtering- and packing-industries it is closely associated with the adjoining Kansas City in Kansas. Pop. in 1860, 4418 ; in 1870, 32,260; in 1880, 55,785; in 1890, 132,716; in 1900, 163,752.

Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher

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