The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusGower is a city in Buchanan and Clinton counties Missouri, United States, that is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The population was 1,533 at the 2020 census. The Buchanan County portion of Gower is part of the St. Joseph, MO–KS Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Clinton County portion is part of the Kansas City, MO–KS Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,526 people in 2010, 1,533 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1975.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Gower yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Gower’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Gower’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Gower, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Gower is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Gower has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is David L. and Sallie Ann Stoutimore House in Plattsburg, 8.3 miles away.
Gower and the nearest listed places
Closest to Gower
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.