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Independence is located along the Verdigris River just south of its confluence with the Elk River. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.75 square miles (20.07 km 2), of which, 7.74 square miles (20.05 km 2) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2) is water. [13]
It was named in honor of Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general killed in 1775 while attempting to capture Quebec City, in Canada, after successfully capturing two forts and the city of Montreal. [4] When Kansas was admitted to the Union as a state in 1861, the Osage Indian reservation occupied a large tract of land near the ...
15 Kansas. 16 Kentucky. 17 Louisiana. 18 Maine. ... Paintsville City Utilities; Louisa City Water; ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
The Blue River (also known as the Big Blue River) is a 39.8-mile-long (64.1 km) [3] stream that flows through Johnson County, Kansas, and Jackson County, Missouri, in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The river rises in Johnson County, Kansas at the confluence of Coffee Creek and Wolf Creek near the border of the states of Kansas and Missouri.
In 1909, the citizens of Kansas City, Kansas, authorized the purchase of a privately owned water system to provide the community with better water service. The electric utility was placed in operation in late 1912. [3] Today, BPU operates as a not-for-profit municipal utility and is an administrative arm of the Unified Government of Wyandotte ...
The town of Independence being a hundred miles further west, and near the great bend of the Missouri River, it was thought to be a more favorable place for fitting out caravans for Mexico, since also the route could be made from Franklin to Independence much better by water than land. At Independence the bulk of the trade continued till about ...
Map of the United States with Kansas highlighted List of unincorporated communities in the U.S. state of Kansas , sorted by county. On the right is a clickable map of the counties in Kansas.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Pages in category "Independence, Kansas" ... Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...