Brush Creek (Missouri)
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Brush Creek is a stream that runs from Johnson County, Kansas through Jackson County, Missouri.
The stream has played a major historic role in the Kansas City metropolitan area.[citation needed]
The Battle of Westport, the biggest battle in the American Civil War west of the Mississippi River was fought on either side of it.
The Country Club Plaza is built on the banks of the creek. The expansive lawn of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art runs from the steps of the museum down to the creek.
Attempts to control flooding on the creek by paving it with concrete produced by companies owned by Boss Thomas Pendergast was a scandal in the 1930s.[citation needed]
Heavy rainfall in September, 1977 resulted in Brush Creek flooding the Plaza with five to six feet of water.[citation needed] Twenty-five people died in the flood and damage exceed $66 million.[citation needed]
The stream begins near West 80th Street and Lamar Avenue in Overland Park, Kansas and drains to the Blue River (Missouri) at Blue Banks Avenue and Hardesty Avenue in Kansas City.[citation needed] It drains 27 square miles.[citation needed]
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