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Lee's Summit is a city in Jackson and Cass counties, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Kansas City in the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Lee's Summit was incorporated on October 28, 1865, under the name Strother, and was renamed Lee's Summit three years later.

The city is believed to be named for Dr. Pleasant John Graves Lea, a prominent local physician and landowner killed during the Civil War — the spelling shifted from 'Lea' to 'Lee' in the town's name.

With 101,108 residents at the 2020 census, Lee's Summit is the sixth most populous city in Missouri, and Census estimates put its population above 107,000 by 2025.

Lee's Summit had 37,664 households at the 2020 census, and about 73% of its homes are owner-occupied, with a median owner-occupied home value of about $340,900.

Longview Farm, built in just 18 months in 1913-1914 by lumber baron Robert A. Long on 1,780 acres, was celebrated as the 'World's Most Beautiful Farm' and is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Part of Longview Farm was donated to create Metropolitan Community College-Longview, which opened in 1969 and was named a TIME magazine/Princeton Review 'College of the Year' in 2001.

Longview Lake, a 930-acre reservoir created by damming the Little Blue River in 1985, is one of the city's signature recreation spots.

The Missouri Innovation Campus in Lee's Summit is shared by the Lee's Summit R-VII School District and the University of Central Missouri, and houses the Summit Technology Academy for high school students.

Lee's Summit West High School, home of the Titans, opened in the fall of 2004 and enrolls about 2,000 students.