Welcome to Lawson MO!
Lawson, Missouri is located just north of the Kansas City metro and with around 2500 residents, we are a desirable size town.
We don’t hide the fact that we’re small. Indeed, we embrace and celebrate it. We enjoy a community where family values, quality education and community pride create the ideal place to live, work and play.
And yet, we strive to develop strategies that allow us to achieve purposeful and deliberate growth. Around here, we dare to dream big, and then we roll up our sleeves and get to work making it happen. Just take a look around town at all of the improvements over the past decade – a new splash pad, upgrades to our City Pool, improvements to our City Lake complex with the addition of the Lakeview Event Center and Lakeview Campground and RV Park, the new Barker Center on the high school campus and Southwest Elementary storm shelter, and many more projects that are coming down the pike.
While we have no intention of being the next big city, we won’t ever settle for less when it comes to improving the quality of life for our residents. We are proud to be a small town with big dreams!
Merry Christmas from all of us at Lawson City Hall! We will be closed on December 24-26 for Christmas. We will resume normal business hours on Monday, December 29 at 8:30am. Hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday!
Don't forget to put your 2026 events on our new community calendar! 📆📆📆📆 This Google calendar is on our website at lawsonmo.gov/calendar-of-events/
You will see a listing of Lawson Park Board events and activities, community activities and official City meetings. If you use Google calendar, you can add our events to your own calendar and you can even "subscribe" to one or all of our calendars.
If you have an upcoming community event, you can submit it at the bottom of the page. We hope this new tool will help people stay up to date with everything happening in Lawson!
#TogetherWeCan #CommunityCalendar #LawsonisAwesome
Happy Work Anniversary to Lawson Police Department officer Gage Mansfield! Gage has been serving Lawson since 2023, and we appreciate him! #TogetherWeCan
Mark your calendar for our final gathering of the Lawson Golden Cardinals of the year! We are meeting for a lunch on Tuesday, December 23 at 11:30am. The meal will include soups and grilled cheese. If you'd like to bring an appetizer or dessert to share, you are welcome to do so, but it is certainly not required. Dress festive and bring a friend too!
Please RSVP by calling Lawson City Hall at 816-580-3217 to put your name on the list so we can plan accordingly for the food. Thanks!
Happy Birthday to our Assistant City Clerk Charla Stephan! We hope you have a great birthday! 🥳