Bethany, Missouri Bethany, Missouri Harrison County Courthouse in downtown Bethany Harrison County Courthouse in downtown Bethany Location of Bethany, Missouri Location of Bethany, Missouri Coordinates: 40 16 0 N 94 2 2 WCoordinates: 40 16 0 N 94 2 2 W State Missouri Bethany is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Harrison County, Missouri, United States. The populace was 3,292 at the 2010 census.
2 Bethany Falls Limestone Harrison, a 19th-century Missouri political figure.
Three commissioners deliberated for a several days to determine a site for the county seat, and voted to site it in the southern part of the county.
The name Dallas apparently did not meet with the general approval of the inhabitants of the improve and the copy was brought before the county court.
The names of Bethany and Carthage were proposed.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad reached Bethany in 1880. Two other barns lines were also later laid into the county.
The barns influenced the economy and surrounding of the improve until the early 1980s, when the last train pulled out of the Bethany Depot and the tracks were removed.
Transportation was an meaningful industry to the improve and the populace interval to its greatest level around the turn of the century when over 24,000 persons lived in Harrison County.
Industry played a vital part in Bethany's expansion starting with Colonel C.L.
For a several years, only a several retail shops existed and evolution and expansion of the town was slow but by 1855, Bethany was known as one of the best trading places in Northwest Missouri.
An industrialized park was established in the 1960s by the Harrison County Industrial Development Authority; the Bethany Memorial Airport was opened in 1968.
The 120,000 square foot building was purchased by the home grown Bethany company Gumdrop Books following Pamida's closure.
In 1960, a second lake was added so that Bethany could meet the increasing water needs.
The Harrison County Lake was instead of in 1994 and provides a third origin of water for the community.
In 1996, inhabitants allowed a revenue tax to extend water lines from the new fortress to the south side of town which resulted in a looping of the fitness and improved water pressure for many areas.
Bethany Falls Limestone outcropping off the Main Street bridge on the west side of town A limestone outcropping on Big Creek west of town gives its name to the Bethany Falls Limestone formation.
However the formation extends through Kansas City, Missouri and limestone is used extensively in buildings in that town/city and the formation is the basis for Subtropolis which claims to be the world's biggest manmade commercial cave.
Bethany is positioned at 40 16 0 N 94 2 2 W (40.266579, -94.034005). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.48 square miles (11.60 km2), of which, 4.44 square miles (11.50 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. As of the 2010 census, there were 3,292 citizens , 1,411 homeholds, and 821 families residing in the city.
There were 1,602 housing units at an average density of 360.8 per square mile (139.3/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 96.4% White, 0.5% African American, 0.5% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 1.3% from other competitions, and 0.9% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,411 homeholds of which 28.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 43.9% were married couples living together, 11.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 3.3% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 41.8% were non-families.
36.2% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 18.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.88.
The median age in the town/city was 41.7 years.
23.2% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.2% were from 25 to 44; 23.6% were from 45 to 64; and 22.9% were 65 years of age or older.
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,087 citizens , 1,344 homeholds, and 817 families residing in the city.
There were 1,506 housing units at an average density of 339.7 per square mile (131.3/km2).
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 99.00% White, 0.10% African American, 0.32% Native American, 0.19% Asian, 0.03% from other competitions, and 0.36% from two or more competitions.
There were 1,344 homeholds out of which 24.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.1% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 39.2% were non-families.
35.0% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 20.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The average homehold size was 2.15 and the average family size was 2.74.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 20.3% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 22.2% from 25 to 44, 20.8% from 45 to 64, and 29.1% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town/city was $28,050, and the median income for a family was $35,023.
About 9.5% of families and 13.0% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 15.1% of those under age 18 and 17.4% of those age 65 or over.
Babe Adams, a experienced baseball player who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates and pitched in three World Series games, lived in Bethany.
Frank Buckles, the last surviving United States veteran from World War I, was born in Bethany.
How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named.
The State Historical Society of Missouri.
"Disappearing Missouri Names".
"Kansas City Wild - Lands!".
"Kansas City bedrock geology".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
Bethany, Missouri website Historic maps of Bethany in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Municipalities and communities of Harrison County, Missouri, United States County seats in Missouri
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