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Downs had its start in the year 1879 when the Central Branch Railroad was extended to that point. [4] It was named for William F. Downs, a railroad official from Atchison. [5] [6] Downs became an incorporated town in December of the same year. In 1910, the city had a population of 1,427.
The federal government is the largest employer in the Kansas City metro area, with more than 146 agencies. Kansas City is one of ten regional office cities for the US government. [71] The Internal Revenue Service maintains a large service center in Kansas City that occupies nearly 1.4 million square feet (130,000 m 2). [72]
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A library association was organized in 1903 to seek a Carnegie Foundation grant. It received a $6,140 grant in 1905. [3]The one-story red brick building was designed by architect A. T. Simmons of Bloomington, Illinois in an eclectic style.
K-181 is a 70.2-mile-long (113.0 km) north–south state highway which runs through several counties in the north central part of the U.S. state of Kansas.K-181's southern terminus is at K-232 southeast of Lucas by Wilson Lake Dam, and the northern terminus is at U.S. Highway 36 (US-36) and US-281 south of Lebanon.
The Downtown Loop (nicknamed the Alphabet Loop) is a complex layout of highways in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri involving 24 exits, four Interstate Highways, four U.S. Highways, and numerous city streets. Each exit is numbered 2 and suffixed with every letter of the alphabet except I and O (to avoid confusion with the numbers 1 and 0).
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This is a map of the Kansas City Southern Railway as of 2009, with trackage rights in purple (haulage rights are lighter). Email me if you would like a copy of the GIS data I created (modified from Bureau of Transportation Statistics North American Transportation Atlas Data) or if you see any errors.