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Platte County is a county located in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the population was 106,718. Its county seat is Platte City . [ 1 ]
Jackson County: 095: Independence, Kansas City: 1826: Lillard (now Lafayette) County: Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), U.S. Senator from Tennessee and later 7th President of the United States from 1829 to 1837 718,560: 605 sq mi (1,567 km 2) Jasper County: 097: Carthage: 1841: Barry County: William Jasper (c. 1750–1779), a noted American soldier ...
Ravanna is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Mercer County, Missouri, United States. [4] It is located 8 miles (13 km) northeast of Princeton on U.S. Route 136. The population was 60 at the 2020 census, [3] down from 98 in 2010. [5] Ravanna was platted in 1857. [6] A variant name was "Sonoma". [7]
The town of Kansas, Missouri, was incorporated on June 1, 1850, reincorporated and renamed City of Kansas on March 28, 1853, and renamed Kansas City in 1889.The area straddles the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, and was considered a good place to settle.
The Platte County Fair held annually just outside Platte City began in 1863 and is the oldest continuously operating fair west of the Mississippi River. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James planned a robbery of the Platte City bank, but it was never carried out due to his assassination by Robert Ford on the morning of the raid. [5]
Cass County is a county located in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the population was 107,824. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Harrisonville ; however, the county contains a portion of Kansas City, Missouri . [ 2 ]
Plattsburg is a city in and the county seat of Clinton County, Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area in the western part of the state, within the United States. [4] It developed along the Little Platte River. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 2,222.
Clay County is located in the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census , the county had a population of 253,335, [ 1 ] making it the fifth-most populous county in Missouri.