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Raymore, Missouri

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1887 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Raymore Township. It lies in ZIP code area 64083. The Survey maps it on the Raymore quadrangle. 22,941 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,093 feet above sea level.

Raymore within Cass County

On record in Raymore

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Raymore grew from 19,206 to 22,941 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
201019,206
202022,941+3,735 (+19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

370 words on this township

History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917 names this settlement in its chapter on Raymore Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Raymore has a bank, the capital stock of which is not for sale, well managed, safe and sound. Good church edifices, well attended, high class of schools, low taxes and a happy people. Why shouldn't they be? Here are great investments. The purchaser will have to pay well for such. These intelligent people know the value of what they have.

Passage source: History of Cass County, Missouri, published 1917.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Raymore Township.

Fires near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Raymore in 1995, burning about 2 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 March 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named
15 March 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresMissouri Department of Conservationnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cass County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Raymore: 4 past producers. None of them 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 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unknown - Ls.Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cass County

Storms near this place

52 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raymore in 52 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 27 hail, 24 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
February 1999Thunderstorm WindRaymore$25,000Outbuilding destroyed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1995Thunderstorm WindRaymore$10,000Severe thunderstorms produced damaging winds, with trees and power lines downed around the junction of Route J and Route 195.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindRaymore$5,000At the intersection of 195th Street and School Road, several power poles were reported to be leaning. One wooden power pole was split. Several outbuildings and one barn were reported destroyed or blown down. Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated up to 70 mph.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindRaymore$3,000Large tree down on car.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindRaymore$2,000Thunderstorm winds damaged several barns and downed numerous trees, at the intersection of Hwy 58 and Prairie Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Downed wires and power outages near Monroe Street in Raymore.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Large tree downed at residence in Raymore.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Tree down at Foxwood Dr and Park Dr in Raymore.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Large oak tree limb snapped on the west side of Raintree Lake.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Tree down near Lucy Webb Rd and Silvertop Ln in Raymore.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Downed power wires were reported in Raymore.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Downed tree blocking a road in Raymore.
September 2023HailRaymore-Quarter sized hail reported near Lowe's in Raymore.
September 2023HailRaymore-Quarter sized hail in Raymore.
September 2023HailRaymore-Golf ball sized hail reported in Raymore.
September 2023HailRaymore-Quarter sized hail in Raymore.
July 2023HailRaymore-One inch hail fell on the east side of Raymore.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindRaymore-NWS Employee reported 60 mph wind.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindRaymore-NWS Employee reported 60 mph wind gusts.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindRaymore-A trained spotter reported 60 mph winds.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindRaymore-NWS Employee reported a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Several small tree limbs were down.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindRaymore-A 60 mph wind gust was reported near Raymore.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindRaymore-A NWS Employee reported a 60 mph wind gust near Raymore.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindRaymore-A trained spotter on the southside of Raymore reported a 65 mph wind gust.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindRaymore-A tree was uprooted and fell on to a garage.
May 2012Tornado (EF0)Raymore-A brief EF0 tornado touchdown was observed at 1717CST, in an open field near 195th Street and Old School Road. The tornado barely moved east and lifted at 1718CST. No damage was observed.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Thunderstorm winds were estimated to 60 mph.
April 2001Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Ham radio observer reported one inch hail and wind gusts to 60 mph.
September 2001Thunderstorm WindRaymore-Power outages reported throughout Raymore.
April 1995HailRaymore-Dime-size hail was covering the ground at Raymore.
May 2015HailRaymore-no account filed
June 2013HailRaymore-no account filed
June 2013HailRaymore-no account filed
June 2013HailRaymore-no account filed
June 2013HailRaymore-no account filed
June 2013HailRaymore-no account filed
May 2012HailRaymore-no account filed
May 2012HailRaymore-no account filed
May 2012HailRaymore-no account filed
February 2011HailRaymore-no account filed
June 2008HailRaymore-no account filed
May 2008HailRaymore-no account filed
February 2007HailRaymore-no account filed
March 2006HailRaymore-no account filed
March 2006HailRaymore-no account filed
March 2005HailRaymore-no account filed
May 2004HailRaymore-no account filed
August 2004HailRaymore-no account filed
May 2002HailRaymore-no account filed
April 2001HailRaymore-no account filed
April 1995HailRaymore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cass 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
Harrelson3.1 miles16
Olson Acres3.6 miles22
Belton4.3 miles22
Coleman4.7 miles16
Riverview Estates5.3 miles19
Lake Winnebago5.4 miles15
Peculiar5.7 miles14
Old Peculiar5.7 miles14

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 RaymoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955130The 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 725135. 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.