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!
We love having Lawson Primary Care Clinic right in the heart of our community! Plus, they are great supporters of the Lawson Park Board which is so appreciated! #TogetherWeCan
Happy Birthday to our Director of Public Works John Kujawa! We hope you have a wonderful day!
Goppert Financial Bank is such a great community partner! They have worked with us and supported many community activities over the past decade. We appreciate their support!
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Thank you to J Christopher Bolinger for taking the time to interview us about the Raum Bridge project. Take a listen! #TogetherWeCan
The City of Lawson is pleased to announce that the Union Pacific Railroad has conditionally accepted and approved the engineering plans for the new Raum Bridge that will span their tracks. The next step in the process is to get approval through MoDOT who is managing the grant funding from the federal level. The engineering firm expects to start the bid process towards the end of this year. Construction is anticipated to begin in the spring of 2026, with completion of the project in the fall of 2026.
City Administrator Stan Dobbins shares, "This is a huge step in the right direction to getting this bridge project completed. We share the same frustrations as the community and look forward to getting the bridge open again!"
United Fiber is a great asset to our community! Not only do they provide high-speed, fiber internet, they are a great community partner supporting many organizations in town. Thank you United Fiber for being awesome!
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