Jackson County, Missouri, United States

Details for Jackson County

Name

Jackson County

Place Type

County

Located in

Missouri, United States

County Seat

Independence (Blue Township)

Established

1826

Coordinates

Latitude		39.0166730		39° 01' 00" N
Longitude		-94.3502276		94° 21' 00.8" W

Population

633,232

Elevation

280 m

Surrounding Counties

Ray NE
Lafayette E
Johnson SE
Cass S
Johnson (Kansas) W
Wyandotte (Kansas) W
Platte NW
Clay N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

758502

Histopolis Place ID

301025236

Updated Oct 17, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Jackson County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Jackson County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Jackson County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Jackson/ (18 Apr 2010)

Jackson County, Missouri Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Jackson County, Missouri
http://www.interment.net/us/mo/jackson.htm (16 May 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=1444 (6 Sep 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Jackson County, Mo. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/MO/JA.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Jackson County, Missouri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_County,_Missouri (28 Jul 2010)

Cemetery jackson Co. MO USGenWeb Archives [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/jackson/jackscem.htm (1 Feb 2010)

Jackson County, Missouri MO, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Jackson County, Missouri MO, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=20384 (17 Nov 2008)

Ancestor Explorer - Jackson County [Ancestor Explorer]
http://www.ancestorexplorer.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=jacksoncounty (22 Jun 2011)

Cemeteries in or near Jackson County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=20384&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (30 Nov 2008)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Jackson County > Cemeteries [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Missouri > Jackson County > Cemeteries
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/MO/Jackson/cem/ (26 Nov 2008)

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Surveys in Jackson County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 24 Townships

The Fifth Principal Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Jackson County. You can navigate to any of the 24 survey townships that overlap Jackson County using the navigation tool below.

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Townships of Jackson County

8 Townships

Blue	Brooking	Fort Osage	Kaw
Prairie	Sni-A-Bar	Van Buren	Washington

Cities of Jackson County

15 Cities, 3 Villages, 63 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Adams	Air Line Junction	Atherton	Athol
Belvidere	Blue Mills	Blue Springs (city)	Bristol
Bryant	Buckner (city)	Cement City	Centropolis
Cobbler	Cockrell	Courtney	Dallas
Delavan (historical u.p.)	Dodson	East Independence	Eastwood
Englewood	Eton	Fairground	Fairmount
Flinn	Grain Valley (city)	Grandview (city)	Greenwood (city)
Hickman Mills	Hicks City	Hiler	Holmes Park
Independence (city)	Indian Village	Jeffreys	Kansas (city)
Knobtown	Lake City	Lake Lotawana (city)	Lake Tapawingo (city)
Leeds	Lees Summit (city)	Levasy (city)	Little Blue
Livingston	Lone Jack (city)	Longview	Manchester School
Marlborough	Martin City	Maywood	Melville
Mount Washington	New Santa Fe	Oak Grove (city)	Pink Hill
Raytown (city)	Red Bridge	Ripley	River Bend (village)
Rock Creek Junction	Ruskin	Ruskin Heights	Selsa
Sibley (village)	Sni Mills	South Lee	Stony Point
Sugar Creek (city)	Tarsney	Tarsney Lakes	Tiro
Trinidad	Truman Corners	Union Point	Unity Village (village)
Vale	Waldo	Wayne City	Westport
Whitmer Settlement

Cemeteries of Jackson County

72 Cemeteries, 10 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Adams	Alley	Blue Ridge (Grandview, Washington Township)	Blue Ridge (Independence, Blue Township)
Blue Ridge Lawn	Blue Springs	Brooking	Brown
Buckner Hill	Calvary	Campground	Carr
Chiddix	Chiles	Corn	Corn
Cowherd	Douglass	Drake	Elmwood
Flanery	Floral Hills	Forest Hill	Franklin
Ganzer	George	Gosney	Grain Valley
Grange	Green Chapel	Green Lawn	Greenwood
Hendrick	Highland	Hill	Hudspeth
Jewish (historical cemetery)	Kehilith Israel Blue Ridge (*)	Koger	Lee's Summit
Levasy	Lincoln	Lobb	Lone Jack
Loose Memorial Park	Mann	Mecklin	Memorial Park
Mound Grove	Mount Carmel	Mount Moriah	Mount Olivet
Mount Pleasant	Mount Saint Marys	Mount St. Marys (*)	Mount Washington
Mt. Carmel (*)	Mt. Moriah (*)	Mt. Olivet (*)	Mt. Pleasant (*)
Mt. Saint Marys (*)	Mt. St. Marys (*)	Mt. Washington (*)	Oak Grove
Oak Ridge Memory Gardens	Oakland	Oliver	Palestine
Perdue	Pitcher	Purdee Chapel	Rice (Fort Osage Township)
Rice (Kansas City, Brooking Township)	Rose Hill	Saint Clair	Sheffield
Soldiers	St. Clair (*)	Stanley	Underwood
Union †	Woodlawn

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