Lake Tapawingo, Missouri

Lake Tapawingo, Missouri is a city of 794 people (2020 census) in Jackson County, a small private-lake municipality between Independence and Blue Springs.¹ The lake community was built by the Lake Tapawingo Development Company in 1926 as an “exclusive sports retreat and rest haven”; the city incorporated in 1962 to prevent annexation by either larger neighbor.¹

Overview

County	Jackson County, Missouri
Population (2020)	7941
Area	about 0.45 sq mi1
Lake community founded	1926 (Lake Tapawingo Development Company)1
City formed	1962 (anti-annexation)1
Name	Said to derive from a Native American word meaning “beautiful water” / “beautiful place,” also told as a princess legend1

History

The Lake Tapawingo Development Company built the community in 1926 as a private sports and rest retreat.¹ Secondary sources on Lake Lotawana identify cattleman Milton Thompson as having developed Tapawingo before Lotawana; that developer attribution is not restated on the Tapawingo Wikipedia lead and is treated here as a cross-linked claim, not independently re-sourced on this page.¹

The city takes its name from the lake within its borders.¹ The City of Lake Tapawingo was officially formed in 1962 specifically to block annexation by Blue Springs or Independence.¹

Sources

See also

• lake-lotawana-mo
• blue-springs-mo
• independence-mo
• Wiki

Footnotes

1. Wikipedia — “Lake Tapawingo, Missouri.” — asserts: Jackson County; 2020 pop. 794; area ~0.45 sq mi; Development Company 1926 “exclusive sports retreat”; name etymology claims; city formed 1962 against Blue Springs/Independence annexation; coordinates ~39.01972°N 94.30944°W. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸ ↩⁹ ↩¹⁰ ↩¹¹