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After reading about the new Armour development in NKC, I started to wonder why we have never tried to annex NKC. Would it not be mutually beneficial?
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North Kansas City doesn't need KCMO. They have a casino that helps fund their city, and there are less than 4,500 people living there. If they joined KCMO, they would be giving up more than they would be getting.
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I've always been more curious why Kansas City hasn't reduced the undeveloped or low density areas it annexed since the 60s. I know the northland continues to be an important area of growth but there's all this other undeveloped or low density area that has to be a net negative for the city's fund/operations.
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FangKC wrote:North Kansas City doesn't need KCMO. They have a casino that helps fund their city, and there are less than 4,500 people living there. If they joined KCMO, they would be giving up more than they would be getting.
Think 1950. When KC annexed north it skipped NKC but when it headed south many small towns were annexed. Why is a good question.
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JBmidtown wrote:I've always been more curious why Kansas City hasn't reduced the undeveloped or low density areas it annexed since the 60s. I know the northland continues to be an important area of growth but there's all this other undeveloped or low density area that has to be a net negative for the city's fund/operations.
This one is easy. It's so some other town doesn't come in, annex a bunch of land and build their own version of College Blvd and pull jobs away from downtown to the north too.

KC didn't need a third downtown and still doesn't.

Looking forward to Second Creek I think KC has finally hit the point it can consider building a new business district in the northland. We need the chicken to make a rail line to the airport make sense and it's not going to bee single family homes.
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flyingember wrote:
FangKC wrote:North Kansas City doesn't need KCMO. They have a casino that helps fund their city, and there are less than 4,500 people living there. If they joined KCMO, they would be giving up more than they would be getting.
Think 1950. When KC annexed north it skipped NKC but when it headed south many small towns were annexed. Why is a good question.
It couldn't annex NKC unless NKC wanted KCMO to annex it.
Concerning small towns being annexed I think it was the other way around in the north. Many towns established themselves in order to not be annexed by KCMO. Gladstone is one. The various "Oaks" towns were also formed in order to not be annexed by KCMO.
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Just curious, Flying Ember: what small towns to the south were dissolved and incorporated into KC?
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Think it starts with Westport. If memory is correct I thought I read at one time, a very long time ago, the talk was to have Westport annex Kansas City. But then KC took off after the Civil War.
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Yes, forgot about Westport. Was thinking further south like Dodson. Don't know if it was ever incorporated.
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I don't think those areas were ever incorporated.
Dodson - Railroad stop
Martin City - Railroad stop
Waldo - Railroad stop
Hickman Mills - Santa Fe Trail then Railroad stop
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Other ones

Red Bridge
Dallas
Holmes Park
New Santa Fe
Acme
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flyingember wrote:Other ones

Red Bridge
Dallas
Holmes Park
New Santa Fe
Acme
Leeds
Not incorporated. Part of Red Bridge would be included in Hickman Mills.
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Marlborough?
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missingkc wrote:Marlborough?
More or less the same as Dodson.
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On a Facebook page about olden times in KC someone has posted a 1934 road map of the Kansas City area. The area around what looks to be Red Bridge Rd and Holmes is called Dallas.
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As a follow-up there were some further posts about that 1934 roadmap.
"This will probably be the most boring post from my 1934 Sinclair Missouri map. There is a section that lists the population of every town as seen in the 1930 census. If you like numbers, it can be very interesting to look at how much the population has changed since 1930. For example, Raytown had 175 residents, Grandview had 700 people, and Lees Summit had a whopping 2035. My hometown of Hickman Mills had 215 residents. Oh, and Kansas City had 399746 and St Louis had 821960 which was more than double Kansas City. Enjoy!"
" I saw a few other interesting population facts as I looked closer at these figures. Some of the villages around Kansas City had 1930 numbers like Dallas at 104, Ferrellview at 116, Holmes Park at 158, Little Blue at a huge 35 people, Martin City at 183. All of these places were engulfed by Kansas City over time. I am surprised that their populations are listed here because they were not incorporated places ever. If they had been separate towns they could not have been annexed."
"One other observation I have is that higher education has had a big impact on some towns. Columbia had 14967 people in 1930 and Rolla had only 3670. These of course are homes of big Missouri universities and they have grown tremendously since 1930 probably because of more professors and support staff and I think some grad students are considered permanent residents. Education has had a big impact on these places."
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https://www.kansascity.com/news/your-kc ... 48382.html

Nice little KCQ article on Leeds District. Was always fascinated by that area when I was a kid. Also, really liking the KCQ articles.
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That looks cool. Thanks for posting. I've always wanted to open something in the Leeds Diner. Maybe some day.
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