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!
Have you checked out our community calendar?! 📆📆📆📆 This Google calendar is here 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
#ICYMI The City of Lawson has begun using a municipal management software system called iWorq. The system has a citizen engagement tool where locals can report community issues that occur within city limits. Examples of appropriate reporting would include potholes, brush removal requests, and deceased animal pick-up. Once a problem is reported, City staff will be notified and will take action based on availability and urgency. Reporters can use the system to check the status of their request as well.
Public Works Director John Kujawa states, “This new system will help streamline community requests and will give us the tools we need to be efficient and timely in our response.”
The system is now available at lawsonmo.gov/report-a-problem/ #lawsonisawesome
Check out the 2026 sponsorship opportunities for the Lawson Park Board! If you are new around here, it's important to know that we make ONE ASK for sponsorship support to support everything we do all year long. So now is your chance to support our programs such as Lawson Golden Cardinals, Art/Storytime/Science in the Park and Maker Mondays, plus events like the Lawson Picnic, Fall Festival and Splash Blast!
We are accepting sponsorships for 2026 through April 10th. (After that, the t-shirts and banners will be printed.) 🥳🥳🥳🥳 #lawsonisawesome 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Fill out the form here: tinyurl.com/ParkBoard2026
🌨️❄️🌨️❄️🌨️❄️ With the possibility of snow this weekend, now is a good time to remind you to remove any vehicles off of the streets that you can so that Public Works has a clearer path to plow. 🌨️❄️🌨️❄️🌨️❄️
📌 It's not just a courtesy, it's an ordinance: In accordance with Section 340.270, the following streets shall be considered emergency snow routes:
4th Street, 6th Street, Clark Street, Hazel Avenue, Moss Street,
North and South Raum Street, Pennsylvania Avenue and West Street.