Chesterfield, Missouri Chesterfield, Missouri Location of Chesterfield, Missouri Location of Chesterfield, Missouri Chesterfield is a town/city in St.
Louis County, Missouri, United States, and a Western suburb of St.
As of the 2010 census, the populace was 47,484, making it the state's fourteenth-largest city.
The broader valley of Chesterfield was originally referred to as "Gumbo Flats", derived from its soil, which though very rich and silty, became like a gumbo when wet.
Geographically, Chesterfield is half the size of St.
3.4 Incorporation as Chesterfield Chesterfield is positioned about 25 miles (40 km) west of St.
Louis, Missouri.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 33.52 square miles (86.82 km2), of which, 31.78 square miles (82.31 km2) is territory and 1.74 square miles (4.51 km2) is water. Portions of Chesterfield are positioned in the floodplain of the Missouri River, now known as Chesterfield Valley, formerly Gumbo Flats.
Chesterfield Valley is the locale of Spirit of St.
Louis Airport, used for corporate aviation, as well as the longest outside strip mall in America. The remainder of Chesterfield is positioned on the bluffs above the floodplain, and includes residentiary and retail development.
According to the 2007-2011 American Community Survey estimate, the median income for a homehold in the town/city was $95,006, and the median income for a family was $88,568.
22.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 5.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 19.5% were from 25 to 44; 32.5% were from 45 to 64; and 20.1% were 65 years of age or older.
In the town/city the populace was spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 25.0% from 25 to 44, 29.7% from 45 to 64, and 14.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Present-day Chesterfield is known to have been a site of Native American inhabitation for thousands of years.
A site in Chesterfield including artwork and carvings has been dated as 4,000 years old. A Mississippian site, dated to around the year 1000, including the remains of what have been identified as a market and ceremonial center, is also positioned in undivided Chesterfield. The present-day town/city of Chesterfield is made up of a several smaller historical communities, including: Rinkel's Market was a familiar landmark for years, at the intersection of present-day Olive Boulevard and Chesterfield Parkway (where Charlie Gitto's from The Hill is now).
Gumbo is positioned in the valley at the present intersection of Chesterfield Airport Road and Long Road.
Their postal service directed from 1895 to 1907, when the mail was transferred to Chesterfield.
Louis metro region and the most recent F4 tornado to hit the city.
The tornado advanced near the Chesterfield Manor nursing home and then moved through River Bend Estates and athwart northeast St.
For many years, "Chesterfield" was an all-inclusive place-name for a vast, unincorporated sub-region of St.
Louis County (called "West 'County" by metro region residents) including the unincorporated historical communities listed above, plus areas now incorporated as metros/cities of their own (e.g., Ballwin).
As the populace grew, Chesterfield Mall and other retail and commercial real estate developments sprang up; however, many inhabitants were concerned about the lack of character enhance services, and that the municipal revenue tax benefited the county freshwater the community.
An organization was formed calling itself the "Chesterfield Incorporation Study Committee." After a number of years, in 1988, The City of Chesterfield was finally established by its residents, and has thrived as perhaps West County's premier residentiary, business, retail, and transit center.
On July 30, 1993, the levee that protected Gumbo Flats (now known as the Chesterfield Valley) from the Missouri River failed. This was the first time the levee had floundered since 1935. The town was told to evacuate, and the whole region of Gumbo Flats was flooded by feet of water.
Today, the region has turn into the Chesterfield Commons retail area. Missouri Route 340 (a.k.a., Olive Blvd.) runs on East-West though much of Chesterfield, before turning Southwest near the I-64 Interchange; its name shifts to Clarkson Road south of this junction.
Missouri Route 141 (a.k.a., Woods Mill Road) runs along the easterly border between Chesterfield and Town and Country, Missouri.
Route 141's northern end was, until recently, positioned in Chesterfield at Olive Blvd.
The Missouri Department of Transportation (Mo - DOT) and St.
Louis County Department of Highways and Traffic (DHT) began assembly of Route 141 in Chesterfield in 2009. Mo - DOT period Route 141 between just south of Ladue Road (Route AB) to Olive Road (Route 340).
Public transit is provided by Metro and joins Chesterfield to many other portions of Greater St.
Louis Airport is positioned in the Chesterfield Valley; the airport is owned by St.
Of Minnesota, provides regular freight rail service to industrialized customers positioned in the Chesterfield Valley.
Louis to Kansas City chief line that was constructed in 1870. The active portion of the former CRI&P line runs from the north side of St.
Louis, where it joins with the Terminal Railroad Association of St.
Louis and Union Pacific Railroad, and now terminates in Union, Missouri. A major rail customer in Chesterfield is a Rock - Tenn (formerly Smurfit Stone) corrugated packaging plant which is positioned on a spur track that extends from the chief track northward along the east end of the runway of the Spirit of St.
Chesterfield has a number of elementrary and middle schools, plus multiple high schools.
The Rockwood School District serves the portions of the city, while the Parkway School District serves the east.
Chesterfield's sole private high school, Barat Academy, is positioned on the former Chesterfield ground of Gateway Academy, a former private elementary school.
The town/city also has four private elementary schools: Chesterfield Day School, Chesterfield Montessori School, Ascension School, and Incarnate Word School.
Reinsurance Group of America, Dierbergs, Kellwood, Amdocs and Broadstripe have their command posts in Chesterfield. Chesterfield has three malls, two of which are supply malls as well as a strip mall called the Chesterfield Commons. According to the City's 2013 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the town/city are: The City has a several recreation facilities including the Chesterfield Amphitheater, the Chesterfield Valley Athletic Complex, and the Chesterfield Family Aquatic Center. Jeremy Maclin, former Missouri Tigers wide receiver, current wide receiver for Kansas City Chiefs.
Louis Blues of National Hockey League, Chaminade College Preparatory School (Missouri) alumnus.
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