Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Raymore, MO

Raymore is a fast-growing city in Cass County, Missouri, in the southern part of the Kansas City metropolitan area, covering almost 20 square miles along Interstate 49.

Raymore was platted in 1872 and incorporated on March 20, 1877, and its post office has been in operation since 1872.

Raymore's name is an amalgamation of the surnames of two railroad men, George Rea and Henry Moore.

Raymore was a tiny farm town for its first century — it counted just 83 residents in 1880 and only 587 as late as 1970.

Raymore's suburban explosion began in the 1980s, when its population jumped 437 percent in a single decade, from 587 in 1970 to 3,154 in 1980.

Raymore had 22,941 residents at the 2020 census, more than double its population of 11,146 just twenty years earlier in 2000.

Census Bureau estimates made Raymore the fastest-growing city in Missouri from July 2022 to July 2023, growing 4.7 percent in one year — the 66th-fastest growth rate in the nation — and its population estimate reached 25,306 by July 2024.

Raymore has about 9,300 households, according to Census Bureau figures for 2020–2024, most of them in newer single-family subdivisions.

Raymore students attend the Raymore-Peculiar R-II School District, known locally as Ray-Pec, whose high school is Raymore-Peculiar High School.

Hawk Ridge Park, one of Raymore's largest parks at 79 acres of rolling hills around Johnston Lake, features a fishing lake, trails and an outdoor amphitheater.