Pleasant Valley, MO

Founded in 1955 as a village in what was then a farming area of Clay County. It is by far the youngest municipality in this group - the place has no nineteenth-century town history because there was no nineteenth-century town. source

The name. No documented origin for the name could be sourced. The city's own history page does not explain it.

The village was incorporated as a Missouri fourth-class city on January 14, 1963, becoming the City of Pleasant Valley. At that point it had no street department, no fire department and no sewers, and its water system was a 1930s Works Progress Administration project inherited from the farming era. source

1. 1955Founded as a village in a farming area of Clay County. source
2. 1961A $70,000 bond was approved on July 21, 1961 to build the original Village Hall. source
3. 1963Incorporated as a fourth-class city on January 14, 1963. The first fire truck was bought in December 1964. In the early years winter road maintenance was done by volunteers shovelling sand out of the back of a borrowed dump truck. source
4. 1984The elected town marshal position was replaced by an appointed Chief of Police. source
5. 2000A new City Hall was built at 6500 Royal Street. source

The median home sold here was built in 1985. Most of what sells was built between 1952 and 1999. That closely matches the Census figure of 1981 for all housing, so sales are broadly representative of the stock. 70% 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, sales broke down as Single Family (41), Half Duplex (1), Townhouse (1).

It is one of the metro's genuinely modern municipalities - founded 1955, incorporated 1963 - and its municipal history is a documented account of building basic services from nothing, from a $70,000 bond approved on July 21, 1961 for the original Village Hall to the first fire truck bought in December 1964. source

Roughly one square mile in area with close to 3,000 residents, operating its own police department with 24-hour dispatch, a fire department, and a public works department managing four municipal buildings and two parks. source

Two municipal parks

The city maintains two parks; the city's own history page does not name them. source

Schools

North Kansas City 74 School District. boundaries do not follow city limits - NKC Schools is headquartered in Kansas City and serves North Kansas City, Avondale, Birmingham, Claycomo, Gladstone, Pleasant Valley and sections of Kansas City Confirm the assigned school for any specific address before you rely on it. source 1 source 2

Getting around

Interstate 35, Interstate 435 and US 69 all run through or along the city - an unusually dense highway presence for one square mile. BNSF, Norfolk Southern and Wabash Central rail lines also run through the area. source

Employers located here

City of Pleasant Valley. Listed as present in the city, which is not a statement about hiring.