Northmoor, MO

Northmoor is a city in Platte County, Missouri, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The 2020 census counted 291 residents. A post office called Northmoor was established in 1927, and remained in operation until 1947. The community's name is an amalgamation of Moore, the name of a first settler, and "north", a directional name relative to the community's location from Kansas City. Much of it is zoned to Line Creek Elementary School and Walden Middle School, while a portion is zoned to English Landing Elementary School and Lake View Middle School.

Northmoor's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Missouri setting. The local scoop is how Northmoor's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Northmoor is bounded by city of Riverside on the south and west, and the Kansas City neighborhoods of Lakeview Terrace and Briarcliff West, to the north and east, respectively.