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Title: County and Township: New Bi-State Agency Planned
Description: Description of the creation of the "Mo-Kan Metropolitan Development District," comprising eight counties by the state legislatures.
Date: 1957-05
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The History of Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Description of the story behind the missing surveys of the southern part of Jackson County, leading to a considerable delay in placing this area on the market.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Book

Title: History of Lafayette County, Missouri
Description: Photos of Kansas City from a bird's eye view, in a book as a whole about the history of townships, cities, towns, and villages of Missouri.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Book

Title: Independence, MO
Description: Map of Independence, Missouri, including a street index plus railroads, highways, township boundaries, schools, etc.
Date: 1966
Object Type: Map

Title: Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Color shaded map showing townships, roads, railroads, streams, schools, and churches in Jackson County, Missouri.
Date: 1916
Object Type: Map

Title: Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Land ownership map of Jackson County, Missouri, showing roads (hard surfaced, oiled dirt, and graded), state highways, U.S. interstates, railroads (steam and electric), municipal township lines, schools, churches, streams, oil wells, gas wells, and dry holes. Includes the townships of Blue, Fort Osage, Sni A Bar, Brooking, and Washington.
Date: 1927
Object Type: Map

Title: Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Land ownership map of Jackson County, Missouri, showing railroads (steam and electric), roads (rock, oiled, graded), schools, churches, streams, oil wells, gas wells, and dry holes. Includes townships of Blue, Fort Osage, Sni A Bar, Brooking, and Washington.
Date: 1920~
Object Type: Map

Title: Jackson County, Missouri Townships
Description: Maps of Jackson County townships, including Blue, Fort Osage, Sni-a-Bar, Prairie, Van Buren, Brooking (Raytown), and Washington (Grandview).
Object Type: Vertical File

Title: Jackson County Townships
Description: Description of the division of Jackson County into three townships by the newly appointed presiding judges of the county. The newly created townships are listed as Fort Osage, Kaw, and Blue.
Date: 1881
Object Type: Book

Title: Jackson County Townships
Description: Article mentions the original three townships of Jackson County, Missouri--Fort Osage on the east, Kaw on the west, and Blue in the center. Reference to the Fort Osage Township as the first because of its initial definition on the county records.
Date: 2011-06-04
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Jackson County Townships
Description: Descriptive history of the townships of Jackson County, Missouri: (1) Westport, (2) Fort Osage, (3) Kaw, (4) "Sni Abar", (5) Blue, (6) Van Buren, (7) Brooking, (8) Washington, and (9) Prairie.
Date: 1877
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Kansas City and Surrounding Towns
Description: Map of Kansas City vicinity and many outlying towns. The city limits indicated for Kansas City, Missouri were inaugurated in 1885. Towns and townships are named and given distinctive colors; railroad lines as well as township section numbers are indicated. Includes Wyandotte County, Kansas, and Clay and Jackson Counties, Missouri.
Date: 1890~
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Jackson County, Missouri [Northern Section]
Description: Land ownership map of the northern part of Jackson County, Missouri, showing railroads, electric railroads, highways (macadamized, graded, main), rural mail routes, streams, churches, school houses, and cemeteries. Includes the townships of Kaw, Fort Osage, and Sni A Bar, as well as the cities of Kansas City and Independence. The map draftsmen are identified as Jas. H. Southwell, A. H. Doty, and A. W. Hirsh.
Date: 1909~
Object Type: Map

Title: Map of Jackson County, Missouri [Southern Section]
Description: Land ownership map of the southern part of Jackson County, Missouri, showing railroads, electric railroads, highways (macadamized, graded, main), rural mail routes, streams, churches, school houses, and cemeteries. Includes the townships of Westport, Brooking, Washington, Prairie, and Van Buren, as well as the cities of Blue Springs, Martin City, and Grandview. The map draftsmen are identified as Jas. H. Southwell, A. H. Doty, and A. W. Hirsh.
Date: 1909~
Object Type: Map

Title: New Map of Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Land ownership map of Jackson County, Missouri, showing roads (hard surfaced, oiled dirt, and graded), state highways, U.S. interstates, railroads (steam and electric), municipal township lines, schools, churches, streams, oil wells, gas wells, and dry holes. Includes the townships of Blue, Fort Osage, Sni A Bar, Brooking, and Washington.
Date: 1930~
Object Type: Map

Title: A Panoramic View of the "Lost" Townships
Description: Illustrated article about the history of several early Jackson County settlements and institutions, including Hickman Mills, New Santa Fe, Red Bridge, early land grants, early churches and schools, etc., with photos.
Date: 1965-07
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Panoramic View of the Lost Townships, Part II
Description: Description of the "Palestine Cemetery, located on the east side of Santa Fe Trail north of 94th Street," in the former township of Holmes Park, on the site of the burned-down church built in 1881.
Date: 1965-12
Object Type: Magazine

Title: A Panoramic View of the "Lost Townships," Part II
Description: Second in two-part article about the histories of former townships surrounding Kansas City, some of which later becoming incorporated, such as Grandview, Holmes Park, Martin City, and Dodson. Description of the founding of each, often due to railroads or street railway links.
Date: 1965-12
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Township 48 North, Range 33 West of 5th Principal Meridian
Description: A plat map identifying property owners in Jackson County. Shows area south of 59th and east of Wornall.
Date: 1877
Object Type: Map

Title: Township Map of Jackson County, Missouri
Description: Color shaded map of Jackson County, Missouri, with roads, rural schools, churches, and cemeteries.
Date: 1961
Object Type: Map

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