The water area of Missouri was 965 in 2016.

Land Area

Water Area

Land area is a measurement providing the size, in square miles, of the land portions of geographic entities for which the Census Bureau tabulates and disseminates data. Area is calculated from the specific boundary recorded for each entity in the Census Bureau's geographic database. Land area is based on current information in the TIGER® data base, calculated for use with Census 2010.

Water Area figures include inland, coastal, Great Lakes, and territorial sea water. Inland water consists of any lake, reservoir, pond, or similar body of water that is recorded in the Census Bureau's geographic database. It also includes any river, creek, canal, stream, or similar feature that is recorded in that database as a two- dimensional feature (rather than as a single line). The portions of the oceans and related large embayments (such as Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound), the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea that belong to the United States and its territories are classified as coastal and territorial waters; the Great Lakes are treated as a separate water entity. Rivers and bays that empty into these bodies of water are treated as inland water from the point beyond which they are narrower than 1 nautical mile across. Identification of land and inland, coastal, territorial, and Great Lakes waters is for data presentation purposes only and does not necessarily reflect their legal definitions.

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Geographic and Area Datasets Involving Missouri

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    Licensee Excise Tax Reported

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2024-09-13T23:00:12.000Z

    Excise Tax data reported by number of gallons per product type. Dataset consists of the last 6 reporting months.

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    Missouri River Water Trail Access Points

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2016-10-17T14:56:10.000Z

    Missouri River Water Trail Access Points

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    Missouri Unemployment Rates For Various Regions

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2013-04-30T21:02:31.000Z

    Missouri unemployment rate for various regions

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    Missouri 2009 Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2021-09-08T15:06:21.000Z

    Metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas (metro and micro areas) are geographic entities defined by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for use by Federal statistical agencies in collecting, tabulating, and publishing Federal statistics.

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    MO_2016_Section_305b_Water_Quality_Report_Complete_Listing_of_Impaired_Rivers_and_Streams

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2024-04-10T19:09:55.000Z

    This data set contains those Missouri waters which have been assessed as impaired in 2016, including waters on Missouri's EPA Approved 2016 Section 303(d) List, but also including waters not on that list, such as waters which have a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) or other appropriate management plan in place, or waters which are not impaired by a discrete pollutant. Missouri's EPA Approved 2016 303(d) List has received approval from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The data set contains the names of impaired waters, their unique identification numbers and locations, and identifies specific pollutants and pollutant sources if they are known. This data set is created in conjunction with the Missouri Water Quality Report, which is produced biennially as required by Section 305(b) of the Federal Clean Water Act, and correlates to Tables 14-15 of that report. These data were formally named: MO_2014_Section_305b_Water_Quality_Report_Complete_Listing_of_Impaired_Lakes_shp.zip and MO_2014_Section_305b_Water_Quality_Report_Complete_Listing_of_Impaired_Rivers_and_Streams_shp.zip which have been removed from MSDIS at MO Office of Administration request.

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    MO State Park Bison Locations

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2019-02-15T19:52:38.000Z

    This dataset is composed of the latitude and longitude coordinates for the three bison located at MO State Park.

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    Population by Neighborhood

    data.kcmo.org | Last Updated 2023-12-28T20:19:02.000Z

    This dataset was provided by the City Planning and Development Department and contains population figures for each Kansas City, Missouri Neighborhood according to the 2010 Census.

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    MO_2010_Department_of_Natural_Resources_Wild_Areas_shp

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2024-04-10T19:09:53.000Z

    This data set depicts the boundaries of Wild Areas managed by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Division of State Parks. This data was derived by digitizing United States Geological Survey (USGS) Digital Orthophoto Quarter Quadrangles (DOQQ) from boundary descriptions and sketches varying in age, content and quality. The Missouri Wild Area System was partially modeled after the National Wilderness Preservation System. Wild areas are protected by the benefits they provide for hiking and backpacking as well as the benefits they provide as outdoor classrooms for environmental education and as increasingly important reservoirs of scientific information. According to the Department of Natural Resources' policy, a wild area must be a "spacious" tract of land generally 1,000 or more acres in size. Generally, it must appear to have been affected primarily by the forces of nature, and to possess outstanding opportunities for solitude and unconfined recreation.

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    Find A Missouri Utility

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2019-02-15T19:50:21.000Z

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    MO_2017_Wells_shp

    data.mo.gov | Last Updated 2024-04-10T19:09:53.000Z

    This data set provides information about wells in the State of Missouri. The parent data set is the Wellhead Information Management System (WIMS) database that is maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Missouri Geological Survey (MGS), Geological Survey Program (GSP), Wellhead Protection Section (WHP). The WIMS database resulted from implementation of the Water Well Drillers Law of 1985. The information about well location, well ownership, well completion date, well construction, well yield, static water level, and borehole stratigraphy was provided by well drillers as required by state statute RSMo 256.600-256.640. Wells drilled prior to July of 1987 are not included in this data set. A WIMS Well Search is also available online at http://dnr.mo.gov/mowells/publicLanding.do These data were formally named MO_2015_Wells_shp.zip which have been removed from MSDIS at MO Office of Administration request.