Clearview City, Kansas

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Clearview City, Kansas
Unincorporated community
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Clearview City
Location within the state of Kansas
Coordinates: 38°56′44″N94°59′55″W / 38.94556°N 94.99861°W / 38.94556; -94.99861 Coordinates: 38°56′44″N94°59′55″W / 38.94556°N 94.99861°W / 38.94556; -94.99861 [1]
Country United States
State Kansas
County Johnson
Township Lexington
Housing Complex 1941
Annexed 1998 (with De Soto)
Area
 • Total 44.17 sq mi (114.4 km2)
 • Land 44.06 sq mi (114.1 km2)
 • Water 0.11 sq mi (0.3 km2)
Elevation [1] 915 ft (279 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 339
 • Estimate (2017) 339
 • Density 7.7/sq mi (3.0/km2)
Time zone CST (UTC-6)
 • Summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP codes 66018, 66019
Area code 913
FIPS code 20-13900 [1]
GNIS ID 479182 [1]

Clearview City was an unincorporated community in Johnson County, Kansas, Kansas, United States, [1] but is now a part of the city of De Soto. Clearview Village is currently registered in the Kansas Historical Registry.

Johnson County, Kansas County in the United States

Johnson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Largely suburban, its proximity to Kansas City, Missouri has led to population growth within the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2010 census, the county population was 544,179, making it the most populous county in Kansas. Its county seat is Olathe, and its most populous city is Overland Park.

Kansas State of the United States of America

Kansas is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka and its largest city is Wichita, with its most populated county being Johnson County. Kansas is bordered by Nebraska on the north; Missouri on the east; Oklahoma on the south; and Colorado on the west. Kansas is named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison.

De Soto, Kansas City in Kansas, United States

De Soto is a city in Johnson and Leavenworth counties in the U.S. state of Kansas, and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The vast majority of the city, 11.13 square miles (28.8 km2), lies within Johnson County. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 5,720, and in 2017 the estimated population was 6,107. The area code is 913, and the two ZIP codes are 66018 and 66019.

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History

Clearview City was the home of the now defunct Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant. The town was initially used as a housing complex built for workers at the ammunition plant, as well had a drug store, post office and a hardware store. The housing is now fixed up and used as apartments, the businesses have disbanded and sit empty. Clearview City was annexed by the city of De Soto in 1998

Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant

The Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant was a smokeless powder and propellant manufacturing facility in northwest Johnson County, Kansas, south of De Soto, owned by the United States Government and operated under contract, primarily by Hercules Aerospace Company.

In 1987, six acres (2.4 ha) of houses in the eastern part of Clearview City were demolished due to damage and age. The church within the Clearview Village is no longer used and a newer church, the Clearview Baptist Church now sits slightly on the outside of the Clearview Village borders.

Clearview Village

Clearview Village was earlier known as Sunflower Village and was built for employees of the Sunflower Ordnance Works. the west side "Old Village" had 853 dwellings in 1943, and the east side "New Village" had 580 pre-fab units that was completed by 1945. Housing, a school and traffic were filled and overflowing. Highway 10, the main street which is now currently 83rd Street. As people came in, it was getting harder to find room and places to room, bored and to dwell in, to a point that people were living in the chicken house and sleeping under quilts on the ground where the current Scout House is sitting on Wea Street. It was so unbearable that rooms that were rented out "by the shift" that other people were bring in trailers and tents. DeSoto's declined with the start of World War II.

In 1955, the housing units transferred to Sunflower Ordnance Worker (SOW) than sold to private buyers. Middle of 1961 Sunflower was sold to Quick Way Homes and is currently known as Clearview City. Around 1999, the area was considered for demolition to make way for the Oz theme park based on the movie and stories of the "Wizard of Oz" by Frank Baum, but the park never materialized. [2]

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Geography

Clearview City is located approximately 36 miles west of Kansas City, Kansas and is two miles (3 km) south of De Soto. It is located in Lexington Township.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Clearview City, Kansas; United States Geological Survey (USGS); October 13, 1978.
  2. ↑ 2017 Fall issue of Discovering De Soto, pages 8 and 10.


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