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Independence is the county seat of Jackson County, Missouri, United States. [4] It is a satellite city of Kansas City, Missouri, and is the largest suburb on the Missouri side of the Kansas City metropolitan area. In 2020, it had a total population of 123,011, making it the fifth-most populous city in Missouri. [5]
[2] [3] Although Independence retains its status as the original county seat, Kansas City, Missouri, serves as a second county seat and the center of county government. [4] The county was organized December 15, 1826, and named for former Tennessee senator Andrew Jackson , who would become President of the United States three years later in 1829.
The average population of Missouri's counties is 53,880; St. Louis County is the most populous (987,059), and Worth County is the least (1,907). The average land area is 599 sq mi (1,550 km 2 ). The largest county is Texas County (1,179 sq mi, 3,054 km 2 ) and the smallest is St. Louis city (61.9 sq mi, 160 km 2 ).
The Jackson County Courthouse, also known as the Truman Courthouse, is a historic courthouse in Independence, Missouri. In 1922, Harry S. Truman won election as county judge for eastern Jackson County as a candidate of the Tom Pendergast faction of the Democratic Party. He failed to be re-elected in 1924, but, then won election as presiding ...
East Side of the Metro is primarily eastern Jackson County which is an area of the Kansas City Metro that contains the far-eastern urban side of Kansas City, Missouri and the following large suburbs of Blue Springs, Independence, and Lee's Summit. The area includes western Lafayette County Missouri and the far northeast portion of Cass County ...
Washington County already has an event committee planning activities to commemorate 25 decades of American independence. Danielle Weaver, the county's public relations and marketing director, told ...
Independence is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Kansas, United States. [1] As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 8,548. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It was named in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence . [ 5 ]
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