The Platte Purchase, a historic region of the United States was the territory included the land between the Missouri River and the original state line. The land was ceded by the Sac and Fox in 1837, and U.S. PresidentMartin Van Buren proclaimed the area part of Missouri. The Platte Purchase includes Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Holt, Nodaway and Platte counties.
Location in Jackson, Clay, Platte, and Cass Counties in the state of Missouri.
Kansas City is a city covering parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties in Missouri, USA.
This annexation would pay off for the city in the 1970's, when a population and developmental boom occurred in both Platte and Clay counties, bringing more buisinesses to the Northland and making many of the landowners in the area millionares.