Liberty, Missouri

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• Clay 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 15 shown

• Arthur-Leonard Historic Districtlisted 2001
• Clay County Savings Association Buildinglisted 1992
• Clinton Houselisted 1978
• Dougherty-Prospect Heights Historic Districtlisted 2001
• Garrison School Historic Districtlisted 2001
• Frank Hughes Memorial Librarylisted 1992
• IOOF Liberty Lodge No. 49listed 1992
• Jewell Halllisted 1978
• Jewell-Lightburne Historic Districtlisted 2001
• Major Hotellisted 1992
• Miller Buildinglisted 1992
• Mt. Memorial Cemeterylisted 2012

Every listing in Clay County

Liberty grew from 29,149 to 30,167 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.

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
• 1935 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1940 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1965 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1983 USGS Kansas City quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000
• 1996 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000

History of Clay County, Missouri, published 1920 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 2004 and 2019, burning about 18 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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:

• Liberty Landing (historical)
• South Liberty
• White Hall Fields
• Glenaire
• Missouri City
• Chandler

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Liberty: 36 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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 Clay County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty in 115 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 60 hail, 45 thunderstorm wind, 6 flash flood, 3 tornado. 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 Clay 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 730132. 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.