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The highest mortality rates included the Wyandot Indians, with 100 deaths from the diseases after the flood in the vicinity of what became Kansas City, Kansas. Earlier in 1844, "by the first of May", the Mississippi River's banks overflowed and "By the 6th, the people of St. Louis began to be severly alarmed", until the water level lowered ...
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 1951 flood in Kansas began in May with the flood of the Big Creek, (a tributary of the Smoky Hill River) in Hays after 11 inches (280 mm) of rain in two hours. The creek overflowed, flooding Hays (the location of Fort Hays State University) to a depth of 4 feet (1.2 m) in most locations inhabited by the students on campus, necessitating a midnight evacuation of the barracks by families on ...
A river in the city of fountains: an environmental history of Kansas City and the Missouri River (University Press of Kansas, 2018). Matlin, John S. Political Party Machines of the 1920s and 1930s: Tom Pendergast and the Kansas City Democratic Machine. (PhD Dissertation, University of Birmingham, UK, 2009) online; Bibliography on pp 277–92.
The Missouri River is a river in the Central and Mountain West regions of the United States.The nation's longest, [13] it rises in the eastern Centennial Mountains of the Bitterroot Range of the Rocky Mountains of southwestern Montana, then flows east and south for 2,341 miles (3,767 km) [6] before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri.
The body of a Kansas City man who was reported missing on the Missouri River last month was found in the water Tuesday in the St. Louis area, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. The dead man ...
The quake, which had a center near Ferrelview and the Kansas City International Airport, was reported around 1:45 p.m. March 15. Magnitude 3.5 earthquake near KCI was caused by mine collapse: USGS ...
Missouri River: 54,280: Near Kansas City: Kansas (Kaw) River: 7,464: Near junction with Missouri River ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Kansas (1974) External ...