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Lake Lotawana, Missouri

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Van Buren Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64086. The Survey maps it on the Tarsney Lakes quadrangle. 2,310 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Lake Lotawana within Jackson County

Population over time

2 figures

Lake Lotawana grew from 1,939 to 2,310 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,939
20202,310+371 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

In the county-history sources

10,490 words on this township

The History of Jackson County, Missouri, Containing a History of the County, Its Cities, Towns, Etc., Biographical Sketches of Its Citizens, Jackson County in the Late War... History of Missouri, Map of Jackson County .., published 1881 has no passage naming this settlement, which was common for smaller places. Its township is covered in full.

The chapter on Van Buren Township covers the township.

Read the chapter on Van Buren Township - 10,490 words.

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Lake Lotawana: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lees Summit Mine and MillStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown-LsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Lotawana in 36 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 18 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 6 flash flood, 2 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Lake Lotawana$150,000On the evening of June 26 a line of storms pushed through the Kansas City Metro area. As these storms exited the metro they produced a tornado that impacted the Lake Lotawana area. The extent of the damage was to trees, as well as to vehicles and lakeside docks and boats. No one was injured by the EF-0 tornado.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana$30,000A large tree fell onto a van in Lee's Summit.
June 2010Flash FloodLake Lotawana$10,000Parts of Highway 7 were washed out due to flash flooding.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana$5,000A 15 foot tall tree with a 6 to 7 inch diameter trunk was blown over. Fence panels were also blown over. An outdoor fire pit was blown around. Damage also to porches,|siding, and shingles.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana$2,000Numerous trees, large branches, and some fencing, were reported down across Legacy Wood, Winsboro, and Cantebury subdivisions in Lees Summit. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana$100A thunderstorm wind gust was estimated up to 60 mph. A few shingles were blown off a house.
March 2024HailLake Lotawana-Ping pong ball sized hail on the east side of Lees Summit near US Highway 50 and Blackwell Road.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-Ham radio operator reported a four inch, nine to ten foot tall tree down near Lake Lotawana.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-Large tree limb snapped and was laying on a fence.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-Power lines were down near Greenwood.
July 2019Flash FloodLake Lotawana-Six to eight inches of water was flowing over Langsford Road and Windsboro Road. This area was not known to have flooded in at least 10 years per the resident.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-A 6 inch limb was snapped off of a live, healthy tree near Highway 50 and Blackwell.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-A 8 inch tree branch was down.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-While surveying the tornado that hit Oak Grove there was a neighborhood just south of the track of the tornadic circulation at Lake Lotawana. This damage was straight line winds, perhaps associated with a real-flank downdraft of the tornadic supercell that produced several tornadoes. The extent of the damage included some shingles off of roofs and some large tree limbs down.
July 2015Tornado (EF0)Lake Lotawana-This brief tornado caused minor tree damage. Maximum winds were rated at 75 mph.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph, with a 3 to 4 inch diameter tree blown down.
May 2013Flash FloodLake Lotawana-West bound Highway 50, just east of the Todd George exit, had 6 inches of water over the roadway. Traffic was restricted, but able to go through.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 60 mph. Trees were blown down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-A tree was blown down.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-A thunderstorm wind gust was estimated up to 60 mph.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-A thunderstorm wind gust was estimated up to 60 mph.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-Thunderstorm winds were estimated up to 65 mph.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-Trees were downed in Lake Lotawana.
June 2005Flash FloodLake Lotawana-Water over road at intersection of Highway 7 and Colbern road.
July 2004Flash FloodLake Lotawana-Highway 7 under one foot of water due to heavy rains.
May 2002Flash FloodLake Lotawana-Highwy 7 closed due to flooding.
July 1997FloodLake Lotawana-The Lake Lotawanna police reported several inches of water build up along Colbern Road and on 7 Highway between Lake Lotawana and 50 Highway. Up to 5 inches of rain fell in less than two hours resulting in the highway flooding.
April 1995HailLake Lotawana-Dime-size hail was covering the ground from Highway 50, north to Lake Lotawana, piled in drifts six inches deep.
July 2018HailLake Lotawana-no account filed
April 2016HailLake Lotawana-no account filed
June 2011HailLake Lotawana-no account filed
June 2011HailLake Lotawana-no account filed
April 2011HailLake Lotawana-no account filed
April 2011HailLake Lotawana-no account filed
June 2008HailLake Lotawana-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLake Lotawana-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Tarsney2.0 miles18
Cockrell2.6 miles18
Tarsney Lakes2.8 miles18
Lone Jack5.2 miles15
Sni Mills6.0 miles18
Blue Springs6.8 miles23
Grain Valley6.8 miles21
Hicks City6.9 miles13

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Lake LotawanaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q953050The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 720753. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.