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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]
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.
The Elk River is formed by a collection of intermittent streams in southwestern Greenwood County, [2] and flows for about 95 miles (153 km) [1] generally east-southeast through Butler, Elk, and Montgomery counties, past the towns of Elk Falls, Longton and Elk City. It joins the Verdigris River at the northern edge of the city of Independence.
In late October, the Biden administration announced a $24.9 million grant for the Kansas Department of Agriculture to specifically deal with Kansas groundwater. It still may not be enough.
Montgomery County is a county located in Southeast Kansas.Its county seat is Independence, [3] and its most populous city is Coffeyville.As of the 2020 United States census, the county population was 31,486. [1]
The mouth of the Kansas River in the West Bottoms area of Kansas City (at a longitude of 94 degrees 36 minutes West) was the basis for Missouri's western boundary from Iowa to Arkansas when it became a state in 1821 (Kansas entered the Union in 1861.) South of the Missouri River, that longitude still remains the boundary between Kansas and ...
The city is the location of the lowest point in the state of Kansas at 679 feet (207 m) above sea level. Coffeyville Municipal Airport is a few miles northeast of the city along US-169. Though Coffeyville is the largest city in Montgomery County, the county seat is Independence , 16 miles (26 km) northwest of the city.
Map of the United States with Kansas highlighted Kansas is a state located in the Midwestern United States . According to the 2023 United States Census estimate its population is 2,940,546 and Kansas has a growth rate of 0.09% annually, which ranks 31st among all 50 states.