Valley Park, Missouri Valley Park, Missouri Valley Park City Hall Valley Park City Hall Location of Valley Park, Missouri Location of Valley Park, Missouri Valley Park is a town/city in St.
Louis County, Missouri, United States.
3 Valley Park School District Descendants of the Mississippian culture still had a settlement along the Meramec River in the mid-18th century, until the Native Americans were pushed out by colonial French and German immigrant farmers in the 1760s.{{citation needed|date=May 2017}] The developing village over time was known as Nasby, Sulphur Springs, Quinette, Meramec, and finally Valley Park by around 1890.
Valley Park and Castlewood Park were advanced as summer resorts.
Castlewood Park became part of the Missouri State Park system.
However, Valley Park began to boom with development.
Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) and Missouri Pacific served Valley Park; now it is Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe.
As many as 70 trains passed through Valley Park on any given day.
Valley Park had a Saddle and Paddle Club positioned at Marshall and what is now Highway 141.
The levee had a primary flood test in March 2008; it saved Valley Park from a devastating flood.
Several parks are inside the town/city limits, including Vance Trails, Leonard, and Brignole parks, and Meramec Landing for anglers and boaters.
Louis County Park and Lake and Lone Elk County Park (which also has a wild bird sanctuary) are also inside the town/city limits.
Valley Park Contracts with (7th) Precinct St.
Valley Park Police Department Valley Park School District Valley Park High School The Valley Park School District is a rather small, but burgeoning district.
A second elementary school, Benton School, titled after the Missouri senator, Thomas Hart Benton, opened in 1908 and directed until 1954.
It encompasses 4.6 square miles (12 km2) that includes a large portion of Valley Park, the village of Twin Oaks, and a section of unincorporated St.
With low student-to-teacher ratios and all school buildings positioned on one ground at One Main Street, the precinct offers a private school atmosphere in a enhance school setting.
The ground consists of five buildings: Valley Park High School and its Music and Industrial Technology building, Valley Park Middle School, Valley Park Elementary School and the Dennis Lea Early Childhood Center.
Valley Park High School has an off-campus program called the Community School, which is positioned one block from the chief campus.
The Community School is an academic-recovery program for students who are unable to be prosperous in the traditional high school setting.
The multipurpose building (c.1968) was renovated to turn into Valley Park Middle School.
Valley Park School District has received multiple academic- and athletic-related recognitions in the last decade.
Shortly after earning the prestigious Federal Blue Ribbon, the high school was ranked in the top 15 high schools in the state of Missouri by US News and & World Report , making it mathematically in the top 2% of enhance high schools in the state of Missouri.
Valley Park High School received the 2012 Missouri Gold Star School and the 2012 National Blue Ribbon Schools Award.
Valley Park Middle School is a Missouri and a National School of Character.
Valley Park High School has been recognized nationally by U.S.
In 2006, Valley Park was featured in local, state and nationwide news media when the City's Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance almost identical to the ordinance passed by the town/city council of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, which penalized landlords who rented to "illegal aliens", businesses who working "illegal aliens", and the rest who aided and abetted "illegal immigration." Thereafter, following the city's passage and printed announcement of an ordinance prohibiting the knowing employment of unlawful aliens, a subsequent suit was brought in state court, later removed by the town/city to federal court.
The Missouri General Assembly, in the 2008 legislative session, enacted legislation, to take effect in August 2009, which encompassed language similar to Valley Park's unlawful employment ordinance, to be enforced by the Missouri Attorney General.
It remains unlawful, by Valley Park ordinance, to knowingly hire unlawful aliens inside the city.
Valley Park is positioned at 38 33 19 N 90 29 18 W (38.555320, -90.488304). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.02 square miles (10.41 km2), of which, 3.80 square miles (9.84 km2) is territory and 0.22 square miles (0.57 km2) is water. Lone Elk Park also contains animals such as elk, deer, buffalo, and turkeys, which can be viewed on a drive through the park.
It is a small region to park and unload a boat or jet ski into the river, or for fishing.
Simpson Park is positioned on the border of Valley Park next to Kirkwood.
It has a large lake for boating and fishing, as well as a biking and hiking trail that goes all the way around the lake in a wooded area, and then stretches far outside the park down to the Meramec River.
Buder Park is positioned on the other side of the Meramec River and is considered a St.
Louis County/Valley Park park.
Louis and the encircling counties come to this park to fly their model planes or fly tight lines.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 27.3% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 41.5% from 25 to 44, 14.7% from 45 to 64, and 8.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
"Race, Hispanic or Latino, Age, and Housing Occupancy: 2010 Enumeration Redistricting Data (Public Law 94-171) Summary File (QT-PL), Valley Park city, Missouri".
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