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Missouri has 114 counties and one independent city. St. Louis City is separate from St. Louis County and is referred to as a "city not within a county."

Jackson County, Missouri

Jackson County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Kansas City, Independence
Year Organized: 1826
Square Miles: 605

Court House:

415 East 12th Street
County Courthouse
Kansas City, MO 64106-2706

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Named for United States President Andrew Jackson.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History of Jackson County

This county was organized in 1826 and named for Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). Conard states that most of the land in the western part was acquired directly from Indian tribes by a treaty signed June 2, 1825. The eastern part had been a part of Lillard County, the present Lafayette County. From 1827 to 1835 the territory of Jackson included that of Cass and Bates counties. Miss Johnson states in her thesis that Bates was organized and named in 1833, although for civil and military purposes it was attached to Jackson County until 1841. Cass County was separated from Jackson in 1835. Today the county is bounded on the north by Clay County and a part of Ray County, from which the two counties it is separated by the Missouri River. Lafayette County and a part of Johnson County bound it on the east, Cass County on the south, and Johnson and Wyandotte counties of Kansas, on the west. (LAWS OF MISSOURI 1826; HIST. JACKSON 1881, 66; Eaton; Conard Vol. 3, 403, 404; Thesis, 1833, 115, 131)

Source: Atchison, Anne. "Place Names Of Five West Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1937.

Kansas City

The largest city of this section and the second largest city in Missouri located in the northwestern section of the county. The present city may be said to date from a sale of lots in 1838. It bore first the name Town of Kansas. In 1853 the name was changed to City of Kansas and in 1889 changed to Kansas City. All three names were derived from the Kansas (Kaw) River (q.v.). In 1853 Hayward lists the post office as Kansas, and a map of 1855 gives the same name. (Map 1855; Hayward, 825; Deatherage 1927; Vol. I, 350; Hodge, Vol. I, 653; Eaton)

Source: Atchison, Anne. "Place Names Of Five West Central Counties Of Missouri." M.A. thesis., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1937.

Neighboring Counties:

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Cities and Towns:

- Blue Springs	city	Incorporated Area
- Buckner	city	Incorporated Area
- Grain Valley	city	Incorporated Area
- Grandview	city	Incorporated Area
- Greenwood	city	Incorporated Area
- Independence (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Kansas City (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Lake Lotawana	city	Incorporated Area
- Lake Tapawingo	city	Incorporated Area
- Lake Winnebago	city	Incorporated Area
- Lee's Summit	city	Incorporated Area
- Levasy	city	Incorporated Area
- Lone Jack	city	Incorporated Area
- Oak Grove	city	Incorporated Area
- Raytown	city	Incorporated Area
- River Bend	village	Incorporated Area
- Sibley	village	Incorporated Area
- Sugar Creek	city	Incorporated Area
- Unity Village	village	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of our country!"

But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.

Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally, act locally."

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