River Bend, Missouri

The Liberty Bend Bridge is the common name for the two continuous truss bridges on Route 291 over the Missouri River in Sugar Creek, Missouri in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Although the bridges cross over the Missouri River, they do not cross the county line. When the Missouri River was rerouted in 1949, it cut across the northern part of Jackson County, Missouri. This left part of the county north of the river, which is known as River Bend. The original Liberty Bend Bridge was located about two miles to the north, which then crossed over into Clay County, Missouri. The main span length is 460.1 feet and the total length is 1,883.3 feet. Vertical clearance is 16.5 feet.

The action at Blue Mills Landing, also known as the Battle of Liberty, was a battle of the American Civil War that took place on September 17, 1861, in Clay County, Missouri. Union forces unsuccessfully attempted to prevent pro-Southern Missouri State Guards from northwestern Missouri from crossing the Missouri River near the confluence with the Blue River to reinforce Sterling Price at Lexington.

Area code 816 is a telephone area code in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Kansas City, St. Joseph, and all or part of 15 surrounding counties in northwestern Missouri. The numbering plan area originally comprised most of the northern and western two-thirds of the state, bordering with Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma, but has been reduced to a ribbon bordering Kansas. 816 is one of the original 86 area codes created in 1947.

The Liberty Arsenal, known by Federal authorities as the Missouri Depot was a United States Army arsenal at Liberty, Missouri in Clay County, Missouri. The depot was seized twice by Southern partisans, once during the Kansas troubles in 1855, and again shortly after the outbreak of the American Civil War. It was located generally west of the junction of Missouri Route 291 and old 210 Highway.

Courtney is an unincorporated community in Jackson County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.

Nebo Hill Archeological Site is a prominent former river bluff located in Liberty, Missouri. It has one of the highest elevations in Clay County. One source states the hill is named after the family who owned the property in the 1900s, while according to another source the name is a transfer from Mount Nebo in Jordan.

Odd Fellows Home District is a national historic district located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri. It encompasses three contributing buildings, one contributing site, and four contributing structures associated with an institutional home and hospital. The district developed between about 1900 and 1935, and representative examples of Tudor Revival and Jacobethan Revival architecture. The contributing buildings are the Administration Building, the Old Folks Building (1907-1908), and the Old Hospital (1923). Also on the property is the historic Odd Fellows Home Cemetery.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

KWJC (91.9 FM) is a classical music station operated by the University of Missouri-Kansas City. The station covers much of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. Between 1974 and 2006, KWJC was a conventional college radio station, operated by William Jewell College in suburban Liberty, Missouri, with a student staff. After that time, KWJC aired the national K-LOVE and Air1 formats from the Educational Media Foundation. When EMF bought a Kansas City translator (K300CH 107.9) and relocated Air1 there, KWJC went temporarily silent on May 31, 2019. On July 1, 2020, UMKC assumed control of KWJC and the station returned to the air with a classical music format.

Birmingham is a village in Clay County, Missouri, United States. The population was 189 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Lazy Branch is a stream in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Missouri. It is a tributary of the North River. Lazy Branch was so named by W.C. Dingle, because he "thought the settlers along the stream lazy because they preferred to hunt and run horses rather than work."

The Clinton House is a historic home located at Liberty, Clay County, Missouri at 404 S. Leonard Street. It was built in 1875 in the Italianate Asymmetrical style. The house consists of a two-story polygonal wing attached to a rectangular wing. The two-story veranda with railed porch and entrances for cross ventilation reflects a Southern influence. Interesting features include the stone-incised fluer-de-lis keystones. Source: Liberty's Living Legacy – 19th Century Houses and Buildings 1820 – 1899 Written by: Christopher Harris c. 2004 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Mid-Continent Public Library, officially known as Consolidated Library District #3, is a public library system serving Clay, Platte, and Jackson counties in Missouri, with headquarters in Independence, Missouri. Mid-Continent Public Library is the largest public library system in the U.S. state of Missouri by number of volumes and size of budget. Its collection ranks among the 100 largest libraries in America, which includes university, public, and private collections, and is among the nation's 20 largest public library systems. The Kansas City Public Library is a separate library system with facilities primarily serving Kansas City in Jackson County, Missouri. On May 8, 2014, the Mid-Continent Public Library received the National Medal for Museum and Library Service during a ceremony at the White House in Washington D.C. The medal is the country's highest honor awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.