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The Kansas City Metropolitan Area, straddling the border between Missouri and Kansas at the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, was a good place to build several settlements. When the area was opened to Euro-American settlement, the area became the first battlefield in the conflict over slavery and southern secession that led to the American Civil War. The first city election was held October twenty-second, eighteen seventy-two, by order of Judge Hiram Stevens of the Tenth Judicial District, and resulted in the election of Mayor James Boyle. The mayors of the city after its organization have been: James Boyle, C. A. Eidemiller, A. S. Orbison, Eli Teed and Samuel McConnell. John Sheehan was appointed Marshal in eighteen seventy-five, by Mayor Eli Teed. He was also Chief of Police, having a force of five men. In June, eighteen eighty, the Governor of Kansas proclaimed the city of Kansas City a city of the second class with the Mayor Samuel McConnell present. James E. Porter was Mayor in nineteen ten. Kansas City is situated in "Tornado Alley," a broad region where cold air from the Rocky Mountains and Canada collides with warm air from the Gulf of Mexico, leading to the formation of powerful storms. The region is also prone to ice storms, such as the two thousand two ice storm during which hundreds of thousands lost power for days and in some cases, weeks. The MoKan area was subject to flooding, including the Great Flood of nineteen ninety-three and the Great Flood of nineteen fifty-one. Of the statistics available in two thousand based on data collected by the FBI as part of its Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which represent from arrests made by State and local law enforcement agencies as reported to the FBI, there were a total of six hundred ninety-six incidents. The Kansas City Memorial Hall is a three thousand, five hundred-seat indoor arena located in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas Speedway is a speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. The speedway is a one and a half mile tri-oval with fifteen degree banking in the turns. The Kansas Speedway held its first race the Winston West Kansas one hundred on June second, two thousand one. It is used for sporting events and concerts and also has a permanent stage. In eighteen eighty-seven, John G. Braecklein constructed a Victorian home for John and Margaret Scroggs in the area of Strawberry Hill. It is a fine example of the Queen Anne Style architecture erected in Kansas City, Kansas. Rosedale arch, a replica of the Arc de Triomphe, at the top of memorial drive.
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