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Garden City, Missouri

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1983. It stands in Index Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64747. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle. 1,629 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 922 feet above sea level.

Garden City within Cass County

On record in Garden City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Garden City fell from 1,642 to 1,629 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,642
20201,629-13 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 13 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

187 words on this township

History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917 names this settlement in its chapter on Index Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

1873. Hugh G. Glenn was clerk of the association and the writer was a delegate to this association. It is quite interesting to reflect and recall the names and faces of the many who attended this meeting. Alas, these men and woman, like the town, have passed the way of all the earth. Few there are who now remember this town, although it has been gone but a few years. On the demise of Index town, some of its houses and all its business moved to the present thriving city of Garden City, in the same township.

Passage source: History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Index Township.

Fires near this place

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 1996 and 2018, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 March 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
4 January 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresMissouri Department of Conservation165862-01917-01042018-1402

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Garden City: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Garden City QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown - LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garden City in 42 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 22 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2003Thunderstorm WindGarden City1 killed, 2 hurt, $150,000Two mobile homes destroyed with two injuries. One of these injured died as a result of their injuries on September 3, 2003. One house had major damage with one injury. Numerous trees down or damaged along with outbuildings.
May 2003Tornado (F2)Garden City$200,000Tornado briefly touched down at Highway 7 and County Road Z interchange. No damage and was reported by storm chaser. Tornado touched back down just north of the interchange, and then continued intermittently for 4 miles to the Johnson county line around Latour, near the inersection of Routes 2 and 131.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGarden City$100,000Winds of around 70 to 80 mph occurred in Garden City as a strong, decaying thunderstorm moved into that area. While the storm was severe, the winds in and around Garden City were somewhat unique to the event and the damage across the city indicated some enhanced winds, probably associated with a significant downburst. While the official estimate is around 70 to 80 mph winds, it's plausible that faster winds were experienced in that area with this event solely based on the damage.
March 2002Thunderstorm WindGarden City$10,000Roof tiles blown off. Automobile had windshield shattered and roof dented in. TV antenna blown over. A single wide trailer moved 4 feet of its foundation.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindGarden City$8,000Two barns destroyed and a grove of trees flattened.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindGarden City$1,000Power lines downed.
June 2021Flash FloodGarden City-Several roads were underwater in and around Harrisonville, namely Highway 291 near Home Farm Road and 283rd Road near Kauffman Road.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Public measured 64 mph wind in Garden City, Missouri.
July 2018HailGarden City-Ping pong ball sized hail covered the deck like snow.
July 2018HailGarden City-This report was received via social media.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Power lines were down in and around Garden City.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Debris from a barn was thrown across HWY N and Chandler Road near Garden City.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Several trees and power lines were down near Garden City.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Several tree limbs up to 3 inches in diameter were knocked down and shingles were peeled up and blown off of several houses.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindGarden City-A large tree was blown down with numerous tree limbs. Neither the size of the tree nor the limbs are known.
March 2015HailGarden City-Penny to ping pong size hail covered the ground.
April 2014Flash FloodGarden City-Several streets and yards were flooded.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Multiple trees were down at Garden Hill Mobile Home Park. A tree fell into and damaged a structure near Garden City, Missouri.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Several tree limbs were broken off, by thunderstorm wind gusts to 60 mph.
April 2007HailGarden City-On Highway 7.
June 2005Tornado (F0)Garden City-Brief tornado touchdown. No damage reported.
May 2003HailGarden City-Also had estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
May 2002Flash FloodGarden City-Flooding reported in Garden City.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Law enforcement officials reported 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2000Thunderstorm WindGarden City-Four large trees were blown down.
February 2017HailGarden City-no account filed
February 2017HailGarden City-no account filed
April 2015HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2011HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2011HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2011HailGarden City-no account filed
April 2007HailGarden City-no account filed
March 2006HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2006HailGarden City-no account filed
May 2003HailGarden City-no account filed
May 2003HailGarden City-no account filed
May 2003HailGarden City-no account filed
August 2003HailGarden City-no account filed
August 2002HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2000HailGarden City-no account filed
June 2000HailGarden City-no account filed
June 1994HailGarden City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rockford (historical)2.5 miles13
Dayton5.2 miles14
Daugherty5.6 miles14
Oviet (historical)6.3 miles13
Austin7.0 miles14
Gunn City7.5 miles13
East Lynne7.7 miles13
Creighton7.8 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Garden CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q962243The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 718333. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.