Highland Crest

The plat was dedicated by the Winn-Rau Corporation, whose president Gus Rau Jr. signed it on 26 January 1952 before a notary in Jackson County, Missouri. The ground is in Section 36, Township 11 South, Range 24 East. Approvals run from the Wyandotte County Planning Board in December 1951 and the Kansas City, Kansas City Planning Commission on 26 November 1951 through the county and city engineers and both boards of commissioners in January 1952, so the whole subdivision was approved and dedicated inside about eight weeks. source

The Unified Government’s subdivision plat index carries the base Highland Crest plat against parcel prefixes 0283 through 0290, with Indian Ridge immediately before it and Oakgrove Park 3rd Addition immediately after, so that eight-prefix block belongs to Highland Crest alone. source

Two additions were filed under the name, a first and a second, and the second holds prefixes 0299 and 0300. A correction plat was also recorded covering blocks 2 through 14 and lots 1 to 45 of block 1, which puts a floor of fourteen blocks on the original layout. source

At least five separate resurveys were recorded afterwards, against blocks 13, 14, 21, 46 and 49, along with a resurvey of the first addition. source

Querying the Unified Government parcel layer across those eight prefixes returns 742 parcels, every one of them in Kansas City, Kansas with a 66106 postal code. source

Highland Crest carries a Kansas City, Kansas address but lies inside Turner Unified School District 202 rather than the Kansas City district. source

The plat was surveyed by Fred C. Oliver and carries its own minimum house sizes: no dwelling of less than 650 square feet for a one-story structure, or 550 square feet for a one-and-a-half or two-story one, each lot limited to a single-family dwelling of no more than two stories with a private garage. That floor is why the original houses here run small and consistent rather than varied. source

The median home sold here was built in 1953. Most of what sells was built between 1952 and 1954. 2% of sales included finished basement space beyond the above-grade footprint - which matters here, because square footage quoted above grade can understate a house considerably.

By property type: Single Family (51).

Addresses here fall in ZIP 66106.

Both columns are medians over the same twelve months, so they are directly comparable.

Ask which filing the parcel came out of before treating two Highland Crest sales as equivalent: the base plat, the first addition and the second addition are separate recordings, and five blocks have been resurveyed since, which can move a lot line off what an inherited survey shows. Order a current survey rather than relying on an old one. Confirm the school assignment in writing too - the address is Kansas City, Kansas, the district is Turner, and that surprises buyers who assume the two match.

With a median year built of 1953, most homes here are post-war stock. None of the following says anything about a specific house - they are the questions worth asking of any home of this age.

• Footprints are smaller than modern equivalents and closets are noticeably so. Square footage comparisons against newer stock tend to flatter the newer house.
• Garages are often one-car, detached, or absent, and electrical panels may have been upgraded once but not twice.
• The pre-1978 lead-paint disclosure and ten-day inspection window applies (40 CFR 745.110).

Deeds written in this era sometimes carry restrictive covenant language relating to race, religion or national origin. Where it appears, it is void and unenforceable in both states, and has been for decades: Missouri directs that such a recital be “ignored, as if the same never existed” source, and Kansas, where such covenants were already unlawful, added a release procedure effective 1 July 2024 source. An owner in either state may record a certificate of release, which does not alter the original document but restates that the covenant cannot be enforced. It is a paperwork question rather than a live restriction - but it is worth recognizing if it surfaces in your title work. What this language is, and how to release it.

Of the 51 homes sold, 17 were 2-bed, 27 were 3-bed, 7 were 4-bed.

Above-grade size ranged from about 690 to 1,420 sq ft across the middle 80% of sales, so the median alone understates how much variation there is.

Closings cluster in April, May and August, with 69% of the year's sales closing between April and September. Because closing typically follows the contract by a month or more, listing activity runs earlier than that.