Independence, Missouri

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• Jackson County

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 12 of 26 shown

• Truman, Harry S, Historic DistrictNational Historic Landmark · listed 1971
• Bingham-Waggoner House and Estatelisted 1980
• Bryant, Dr. John S. Jr. and Harriet Smart, Houselisted 1992
• Andrew Drumm Institutelisted 2006
• Harry S Truman National Historic Sitelisted 1985
• Harry S Truman National Historic Site (Boundary Increase)listed 2005
• Mollie and Josephine Hughes Houselisted 1994
• Jackson County Courthouselisted 1972
• Jackson County Jail and Marshal's Houselisted 1970
• Lewis Jones Houselisted 1994
• Kritser Houselisted 1985
• Lewis-Webb Houselisted 1986

Every listing in Jackson County

Independence grew from 111,700 to 123,011 between 1970 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.

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.

• 1894 USGS Independence quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1934 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1940 USGS Independence quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
• 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000
• 1996 USGS Independence quadrangle1:24000

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 names this settlement in its chapter on Blue Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Independence between 1997 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 were 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Maywood
• Sugar Creek
• Little Blue
• Bristol
• Cement City
• Englewood

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Independence: 28 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sulfur. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Independence in 63 storm reports between 1993 and 2026: 35 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735664. 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.