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Map of Missouri conservation areas with the Kansas City region highlighted. The Kansas City administrative region of the Missouri Department of Conservation encompasses Bates, Benton, Cass, Clay, Henry, Jackson, Johnson, Lafayette, Pettis, Platte, St. Clair, and Vernon counties. The regional office is located in Lee's Summit.
Lake Jacomo / dʒ ə ˈ k oʊ m oʊ / is a 970-acre (3.9 km 2) freshwater reservoir located near Blue Springs in Jackson County, Missouri. It is located in the 7,809-acre (32 km 2 ) Fleming Park , which is managed by the Jackson County Parks and Recreation Association.
Tuttle Creek Dam and Lake Wilson Dam and Lake Birds on one of Quivira National Wildlife Refuge's salt marshes. Lake Inman is the largest natural lake in Kansas. The shorelines of Kansas Lakes are mostly in government ownership and open to the public for hunting, fishing, camping, and hiking. Large areas of public land surround most of the lakes.
The Big Basin Prairie Preserve is a 1,818 acres (7.36 km 2; 2.84 sq mi) nature preserve owned and managed by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. The preserve is in the Red Hills near Ashland in Clark County, Kansas .
Smithville Lake is a 7,190-acre (29 km 2) reservoir on the Little Platte branch of the Platte River in Clay County, Missouri near Smithville. It provides the water supply for Smithville, Missouri and Plattsburg, Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri has reserved a portion for its water supply.
Longview Lake is a 930-acre (3.8 km 2) freshwater reservoir in parts of Kansas City, Lee's Summit, and Grandview, all in Jackson County, Missouri. The reservoir is part of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Little Blue River Project for flood control , recreation, and fish and wildlife conservation .
Often associated with Kansas City, the cities of Lawrence, Kansas and Saint Joseph, Missouri are identified as separate Metropolitan Statistical Areas. [20] The Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City MO-KS (USA) Combined Statistical Area (CSA) encompasses the Metropolitan statistical areas (MSA) of Kansas City MO-KS, the St. Joseph metropolitan ...
The Kansas City District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages Wilson Dam, Wilson Lake, and 13,000 acres (53 km 2) of land surrounding the reservoir for the purposes of flood control, recreation, fish and wildlife management, and downstream water quality improvement. Corps staff maintain the dam and outlet works, conduct dam safety ...