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Lee's Summit, Missouri

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The city of Lee's Summit<1> is primarily located in Cass County. A portion of Lee's Summit extends into Jackson County.

Lee's Summit is 300 feet [91.44 m] above sea level.<2>

Time Zone: Lee's Summit lies in the Central Time Zone (CST/CDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Lee's Summit, but it seems to be unique to this community.

At the time of the 2000 Census, Lee's Summit had a population of 70,700 people<3> (or 85.59% of the total population of Cass County). The population of Lee's Summit represented 1.26% of the total of Missouri, making it the state's 7th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Lee's Summit had a population of 84,208 people. This is an increase of 19.11% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Lee's Summit.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000		Year-to-Year Change
200884,208+19.11%+1.83% since 2007
200782,695+16.97%+1.3% since 2006
200681,637+15.47%+2.05% since 2005
200579,999+13.15% 
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200070,700The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population		Change
Since 2000
 Leawood (KS)   W13 mi [20.92 km]31,34213.33% increase
 Lenexa (KS)   W18 mi [28.97 km]46,82216.36% increase
 Overland Park (KS)   W16 mi [25.75 km]171,23114.86% increase
 Prairie Village (KS)   W14 mi [22.53 km]21,4792.69% decrease
 Belton   SW10 mi [16.09 km]24,59113.17% increase
 Blue Springs   NE8 mi [12.87 km]55,69815.84% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Lee's Summit.

Websites for Lee's Summit

Official Website:   www.lees-summit.mo.us/
   
Chamber of Commerce:   www.lschamber.com/

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Lee's Summit or Cass County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.


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Google's 'Search-by-Location' is a very useful tool for people who might be planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Lee's Summit. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Lee's Summit? Please visit the Map Page for Lee's Summit.


Footnotes

<1>Keep in mind that you might find some variations to Lee's Summit:

It's frequently the practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. In that case, you may find that a reference to Lees Summit is actually referring to Lee's Summit. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether and so a reference to Lee Summit may be referring to Lee's Summit.

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<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Lee's Summit - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Lee's Summit.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Lee's Summit and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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