Lees Summit, Missouri

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• Jackson County

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 12 of 20 shown

• Todd M. Sr. George Houselisted 2010
• Lee's Summit Christian Church Buildinglisted 2011
• Longview Farmlisted 1985
• Saint Paul's Episcopal Churchlisted 1985
• Sherwood Manufacturing Company Buildinglisted 2010
• Bailey Family Farm Historic Districtlisted 2006
• Bayles Addition Historic Districtlisted 2013
• Howard Neighborhood Historic Districtlisted 2007
• Lee's Summit Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2005
• Lee's Summit Post Officelisted 2018
• Morningside Acres Historic Ranch House Districtlisted 2012
• Northeast Douglas Street Residential Historic Districtlisted 2008

Every listing in Jackson County

Lees Summit grew from 91,364 to 101,108 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.

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.

• 1887 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1894 USGS Harrisonville quadrangle1:125000
• 1934 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000
• 1939 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1949 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000
• 1950 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1956 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Lawrence quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1983 USGS Olathe quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000
• 1996 USGS Lees Summit quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Lees Summit between 2007 and 2014, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Longview
• Delavan (historical)
• Union Point
• Bristol
• Eastwood
• Englewood

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Lees Summit: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lees Summit in 134 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 78 hail, 45 thunderstorm wind, 5 lightning, 3 flash flood. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

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

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 735684. 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.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

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.