Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Oak Grove, MO

Oak Grove is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, that also extends into neighboring Lafayette County, on the eastern edge of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

Oak Grove was originally called Lickskillet, and although a post office has operated there since 1840, the town was not formally platted until 1878 and was incorporated in 1881.

Oak Grove was named for a grove of oak trees that stood near the original town site.

Oak Grove had 8,157 residents at the 2020 census, up from 7,795 in 2010 and just 761 in 1950, reflecting decades of suburban growth east of Kansas City.

The 2010 census counted 2,791 households in Oak Grove, and 44.3% of them included children under the age of 18, giving the city a young, family-oriented profile.

On March 6, 2017, an EF3 tornado tore across the southern part of Oak Grove, damaging 483 houses and 12 businesses and injuring 15 people, though remarkably no one was killed.

In the early 1980s, an edition of the Monopoly board game was produced that was themed entirely around the town of Oak Grove.

Most Oak Grove students attend schools in the Oak Grove R-VI School District, including Oak Grove High School, and the city has its own branch of the Mid-Continent Public Library.

Oak Grove publishes its own community newspaper, Focus on Oak Grove, produced by the same publishers as The Odessan in nearby Odessa.

Oak Grove covers about 6.4 square miles of eastern Jackson County and has grown from a settlement of 208 people in 1880 into one of the county's fast-growing outer suburbs.