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  "In 1970, the city's area was 316 square mile in 3 counties, with the final annexation having become effective in JANUARY 1963."  George Ehrlich-KCMO An Architectural History
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moderne wrote:    "In 1970, the city's area was 316 square mile in 3 counties, with the final annexation having become effective in JANUARY 1963."  George Ehrlich-KCMO An Architectural History
Not completely accurate according to the annexation history put out by the city.  After the 1963 annexation it was at 314.5 sq miles  :P.  No annexations from 1963 to 1985.  The remaining annexations since brought in only a little more than 3 sq miles. 
I may be right.  I may be wrong.  But there is a lot of gray area in-between.
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Better than nine other states! That's awesome!
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KCMax wrote: Better than nine other states! That's awesome!
Oops, duh, there are 53 states.
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KC's relatively uninhabited northland hurts us in this rankings, college degrees per square miles.   

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/0 ... 96792.html
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Here's the full list (educated population) by metro...

KC metro faired well overall (41/200) and ranked 15th for metros over 1M.  KC edged over Atlanta and Chicago and surprisingly Columbus, which is a giant college town not much smaller than KC.

http://www.portfolio.com/graphics/BrainiestBastions.pdf

Bottom of list for metros over 1M...
Riverside, CA; Vegas, Memphis,  San Antonio, Tampa
A little surprising that Houston is in bottom 10 of large metros, below Miami.


Outside of college towns, the top Midwest rankings are (in order)...
Minneapolis, Des Moines, KC, Chicago, Omaha, Columbus, St. Louis, Indy
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The Columbus ranking is interesting.  There's common thinking that KC needs a well established university to retain/gain highly educated.  Ohio State is if I recall the largest (or second largest) university, or it was at one time.  Yet KC has slightly higher % (and more raw quantity) with advanced degrees than Columbus. 

Though Columbus has slightly higher % with high school dropouts, which is also surprising as I figured our inner city education issues were worse than theirs.
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KC is the third most charitable city after Seattle and San Francisco.

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Speaking of rankings, when do the 2010 Census city populations get released? (I'm predicting 490K for KCMO)
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KC has the most freeway miles per capita in the nation

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WE'RE #1! WE'RE #1! WE'RE #1! WE'RE #1!


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this list is not from forbes, and thus it cannot be trusted.
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KC metro is top 10 job market?

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n ... among.html

Hopefully this is true as according to BLS, KC has taken a major hit in last 2 years.  Cerner seems to be on a roll though and Sprint has hit bottom and now seems to be getting back together, hopefully meaning more jobs.  It says we have more IT and Health jobs openings compared to number of people looking in KC, which means it should draw outsiders.  It also singled out KC and Cleveland for higher number of open retail jobs.
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Go WyCo...

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n ... -11th.html

Surprised to hear JoCo lost employment greater than US avg for large counties.
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ignatius wrote: Go WyCo...

http://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/n ... -11th.html

Surprised to hear JoCo lost employment greater than US avg for large counties.
Wonder how much of that is attributable to Sprint.  Or have they finally stabilized?
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KC had the 13th greatest income growth in the decade among major metro areas. Surprised to see Baltimore #1. What gives? Interesting that many of the income increases came in cold weather traditional northeast/midwest cities, while the income losers were the Sun Belt cities. Due to credit/housing bubble?

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