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Reference Maps

Although many maps in this section bear a similarity to other maps, there are differences in the functional definition that should be carefully observed.

• Census Tract Maps
• Central Business District - Existing Development, Spring 2005 • 17" x 22" map. $25. Shows building footprints inside the Kansas City downtown "loop" with names, street names and highway interchanges.
• Community Analysis Areas Map - this map is to be used in conjunction with any of the existing Long Range Forecasts.
• Kansas City, MO-KS, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), 2003 - In 2003, the US Census Bureau announced the addition of two counties in Kansas and two counties in Missouri to the Kansas City MSA. This map represents the 15-county MSA.
• Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City Combined Statistical Area (CSA) - In 2004, the US Census Bureau announced the creation of a new statistical area by combining the Kansas City MSA with the Atchison, KS, and Warrensburg, MO, Micropolitan Statistical Areas. The new CSA is composed of 17 counties.
• MARC Reference Map, small
  Cities, counties and major roads. Formatted for letter size (8.5" x 11") printing.
• MARC Reference Map, large
  Cities, counties and major roads. Formatted for E-size (34" x 44") printing. 4.6 MB
• MARC and Metro Regional Planning Boundaries Map - This map illustrates MARC's nine-county planning area with interstate and urban classification markings, as well as the metropolitan transportation planning boundary and air quality maintenance/conformity area.
• Transportation Maps - traffic counts, traffic flows, the region's Roadway Functional Classification map, and others. For more recent and complete traffic count maps see the Missouri or the Kansas Departments of Transportation.
• Urban Core - There are different ways to define “urban core”, depending on the objectives to be satisfied. MARC was charged to see what could be done to revitalize the core, so it chose a definition based on what was currently wrong with the core.

  There are basically two ways to define urban core. One is deficit-based - where the greatest concentration of problems is. The second is asset-based - where the greatest concentration of economic and social activity is.

  MARC took a deficit based approach. Within this approach there are many options. Older structures and infrastructure is one. Concentrations of poverty and other social ills is another. Whether the core is a contiguous area or simply the older parts of all communities (which would include places like downtown Olathe and Liberty) is also a choice to be made.

  MARC thought the core should mean the center of the city, the heart of the city, so it opted for a contiguous definition of urban core. While the method for deciding which areas were in or out was based on indications of distress, it also happens to be the area with the greatest concentration of economic and social activity, and so covers the geographic area an asset-based definition would include.

• ZIP Code Maps
• ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) Maps

For more information on any of these maps, contact the Research Services Department at 816/474-4240 or research@marc.org.