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Anything Weather - MO-GRAINVALLEY
Central Jackson County Fire Protection District - CJCFPD
About This City
About the name: The city of Grain Valley got the name from the abundance of grain in the area and the geography of the surrounding area.Brief Look into History: The Osage Indian tribe, resided in this area and their presence created an environment for trade, to which many Americans flocked. With an abundance of animals for trapping and their valued furs the Fort Osage area began to thrive. The settlements of Stony Point and Pink Hill were near this lively trading and trapping activity. These two communities were the forerunners of Grain Valley, both communities self-producing nearly all the products they needed for a full life.
But the peaceful communities changed in 1860 when the War Between the States began. Missouri's Legislature voted to stay with the Union which brought hardship and sorrow to those families whose loyalties lay with the South, guerilla warfare was common between both the Northern and Southern sympathizers. Gen. Thomas Ewing, a Union officer, issued the Order Number 11 after the Lawrence, Kansas raid which stated that all residents in Jackson County not within the radius of six miles from a Union Army installation must leave the county in two weeks. In the confusion that followed, many were killed including civilians and children, total war had been declared on the State of Missouri in an effort to quell the guerilla uprising. Within 15 days nearly every inhabitant had gone, and for a few years little to nothing happened in this area.
The founder(s): Settlers started returning after the Civil War, and found very little left, Pink Hill and Stony Point residents began to rebuild their townships, which resulted in the first church in Pink Hill which was built in 1871 and still stands today, and Stony Point's church called Pleasant Valley Church. The Chicago and Alton Railroads, surveyed the area for railroad tracks in Sni Township in the 1850's but after the war they decided bypassing Pink Hill completely and to connect Blue Springs to Oak Grove by running the tracks in a straight line between the towns. J.H. Cannon built a general merchandising store halfway between the two towns on the railroad. Settlers started coming from Pink Hill and Stony Point to rebuild and the town of Grain Valley resulted. The town of Grain Valley was officially formed on September 5th, 1878.
More History: By 1881 many businesses moved in, including grocery stores, a shoe repair shop, plus doctors and ministers. The Bank of Grain Valley was founded in 1905 with J.H. Webb as the president and W.A. Cannon as vice-president. The other bank in Grain Valley was the Sni-A-Bar Banking Company established in 1914. Grain Valley remained a small farming community for many years. The Second World War sent many people out to work in Lake City and Kansas City. New highways and better all around transportation gave residents choices of working outside of Grain Valley. Around 1975 J.R. Stewart built a housing development, Valley Heights, in the Cannon addition of Grain Valley. A year later another 200 homes were built in the Golfview Development. In 1977, Sterling National Realty came into Grain Valley building and redeveloping homes and businesses. At that time the population of Grain Valley was around 780 people. Sni-A-Bar Farms was sold to Steve Gildehaus and other developers in 1988 and that area was annexed into Grain Valley.
The story of Grain Valley would not be complete without the mention of Sni-A-Bar Farm. Sni-A-Bar farm was purchased by William Rockhill Nelson, owner and publisher of the Kansas City Star in 1913. It was founded with the purpose of furnishing the farmers with information by demonstration of better methods of cattle raising. Mr. Nelson died in 1915 and left Sni-A-Bar Farm in a trust for 30 years with his daughter, Mrs. Laura Nelson Kirkwood and the University of Missouri as trustees. The farm from 1915 to 1945 was one of the most visited farms in the country. Students, teachers, as well as cattle raisers from all over the globe came to the demonstrations each October.
Grain Valley was incorporated in 1945 as a fourth class city. The 1990 census listed the population of Grain Valley as 1905; as of the first quarter of 1998 Grain Valley's population is estimated at 5000, one of the fastest growing communities in Missouri.
Information was collected from the City of Grain Valley's Website and their sources through: Dorthy Greene, January 1998 from the following articles: History of Stony Point, Erma Bumgardner (Doty) 1934, and City Was Formed From Small Towns; Joshua R. Fisher, The Blue Springs Examiner, August 14th, 1996; Paul Morgenroth, President of the Grain Valley Historical Society. More can be found here: City of Grain Valley History
About This Website
This website was created as a public service for residents of Grain Valley, MO, and surrounding areas. Our weather station is privately owned and operated, and should not be considered an officially recognized station for weather reporting. Our site and station are both a hobby and experiment in weather-related computing.
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Station Status: Currently: Wind INOP, Rain INOP
Station Altitude: 820 ft.
Windows Station Uptime: 3 Days 15 Hours 38 Minutes 52 Seconds
Indoor Station Temperature: 70.2°F
Indoor Station Humidity: 45%
