Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Grandview, MO

Grandview is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, in the southern tier of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Grandview began as a farming community known as the Anderson District, named for general store owner John Anderson; a post office opened in 1889 and the city was incorporated on February 6, 1912.

Grandview took its name from the landscape — standing on the steps of Anderson's store, Solomon Young and Ervin Wallingford are said to have declared the elevated site a 'grand view.'

A young Harry S. Truman spent 14 years living and working on his grandfather Solomon Young's 600-acre farm in Grandview in the early 1900s.

While in Grandview, Harry Truman organized the Grandview Masonic Lodge #618, served on the local school board, worked as road overseer after his father's death, and served as the town's postmaster in 1915.

The Truman Farm Home, where the future 33rd president lived, still stands in Grandview and is preserved by the National Park Service.

Harry Truman hoped to build his presidential library in Grandview, but it was built in Independence instead — though Truman personally dedicated Grandview's Truman Corners shopping center.

In 1912 Grandview became a railroad terminal and division point for the Kansas City Southern Railroad, and its original depot, now the Depot Museum next to Freedom Park, is maintained by the Grandview Historical Society.

Grandview became a military town when the U.S. Air Force operated Grandview Air Force Base, later renamed Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, on the city's edge.

Grandview had 26,209 residents at the 2020 census, up 7.1% from 24,475 in 2010, and Census Bureau estimates put the population at about 26,653 by 2025.