Kirkwood, Missouri Kirkwood, Missouri Kirkwood Amtrak Station Kirkwood Amtrak Station Location of Kirkwood, Missouri Location of Kirkwood, Missouri Kirkwood Historic District Kirkwood is an inner-ring suburb of St.
As of the 2010 census, the city's populace was 27,540. Founded in 1853, the town/city is titled after James P.
Kirkwood, builder of the Pacific Railroad through that town.
Kirkwood was the first suburban municipality assembled outside of the St.
Kirkwood was laying out a route for the Pacific Railroad.
Kirkwood was platted in 1852, and titled for James P.
Kirkwood, chief engineer of the Missouri Pacific Railroad. When the barns reached the improve in 1853, the developers sold lots for the Kirkwood Association.
Among the four other buildings in Kirkwood listed on the NRHP is a Frank Lloyd Wright home in Ebsworth Park Foundation.
Since 1961, it has been held in Kirkwood Park.
The festival consists of a parade and a fair held in Kirkwood park.
The Kirkwood High School Pioneers and Webster Groves Statesmen alternate as hosts of the annual Turkey Day Game, the longest-running football high school Thanksgiving Day rivalry west of the Mississippi.
The Kirkwood Farmers' Market was established in 1976.
Louis Children's Museum in Kirkwood has turn into a prominent family attraction for the region.
Kirkwood is positioned at 38 34 50 N 90 24 51 W (38.580652, -90.414289). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.20 square miles (23.83 km2), of which, 9.16 square miles (23.72 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 27,540 citizens in Kirkwood, 11,894 homeholds, and 7,327 families residing in the city.
There were 11,894 homeholds of which 29.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% were married couples living together, 9.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 2.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 38.4% were non-families.
In 2000 there were 11,763.5 homeholds out of which 28.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 50.5% were married couples living together, 9.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 38.3% were non-families.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.4% under the age of 18, 5.9% from 18 to 24, 27.6% from 25 to 44, 24.9% from 45 to 64, and 18.2% who were 65 years of age or older.
Kirkwood City Hall where the scene of a spree shooting occurred in 2008.
The town/city is normally low in crime. In 2007 and 2008, Kirkwood was the site of three sensational affairs.
Wikinews has related news: Gunman opens fire at Missouri town/city council meeting On February 7, 2008, Kirkwood resident Charles L.
"Cookie" Thornton shot many citizens at a Kirkwood town/city council session, killing five Council Members Connie Karr and Michael H.T.
Kirkwood mayor Mike Swoboda and Suburban Journals reporter Todd Smith were injured.
Stan Masters painting of the rail line in downtown Kirkwood Kirkwood sits along the Jefferson City Subdivision of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Kirkwood Station is positioned near the center of downtown Kirkwood and is a stop for Amtrak's Missouri River Runner.
Bus service in Kirkwood is provided by Metro.
Bus service joins Kirkwood to other suburban communities and downtown St.
Interstate Highway 270 runs along the edge of Kirkwood.
Major surface streets include Manchester Road (Missouri Route 100) bordering the town/city to the north, and US 61/67 (Lindbergh Boulevard) which runs north-south through downtown Kirkwood as Kirkwood Road.
Public education in Kirkwood falls under the Kirkwood R-7 School District, which includes five elementary schools, Tillman Elementary, North Glendale Elementary, Keysor Elementary, Robinson Elementary, and Westchester Elementary, two middle schools, Nipher Middle School and North Kirkwood Middle school, and a single high school, Kirkwood High School, which dates back to 1865 (the institution was originally in the building that homes Nipher Middle School today, not the current campus, which was first assembled in 1955).
Upon graduation from elementary school, students from North Glendale, Robinson, and half of Tillman go to Nipher Middle School, and the remaining students from Keysor, Westchester, and the other half of Tillman go to North Kirkwood Middle School.
The precinct covers all of Kirkwood as well as all or parts of the neighboring lesser communities of Des Peres, Frontenac, Glendale, Huntleigh, Oakland, and Warson Woods.
Louis Community College operates a 78-acre (320,000 m2) ground in Kirkwood, STLCC-Meramec.
Kirkwood is the world command posts of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod a confessional Lutheran denomination with 2.1 million members.
Jeremy Maclin, football player for the Kansas City Chiefs, attended high school in Kirkwood Brandon Williams, NFL football player for the Baltimore Ravens, born in Kirkwood Denison, accomplished Missouri naturalist, amateur botanist, artist and author of the book "Missouri Wildflowers", now presented as a 6th version Trent Green, former NFL quarterback, attended high school in Kirkwood Marianne Moore, Modernist poet and writer, born 1887 in Kirkwood David Sanborn, Grammy Award-winning alto saxophonist, interval up in Kirkwood "Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Kirkwood city, Missouri".
The City Of Kirkwood - History Kirkwood Neighborhood - St.
"Kirkwood city, Missouri - Fact Sheet - American Fact - Finder".
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kirkwood, Missouri.
City of Kirkwood official website Kirkwood Historical Society Kirkwood School District Kirkwood at the Open Directory Project "Kirkwood, Missouri photographs".
Historic maps of Kirkwood in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri Louis County, Missouri, United States
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