Lake Winnebago, Missouri

Lake Winnebago, Missouri is a city of 1,433 people (2020 census) in north-central Cass County, part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.¹ The municipality closely surrounds the private lake of the same name (two wards); it incorporated first as a village in 1963 and became a fourth-class city in 1975 by election.¹

Overview

County	Cass County, Missouri
Population (2020)	1,4331
Area	about 2.73 sq mi1
Form	Village 1963 → fourth-class city 19751
Structure	Two wards surrounding Lake Winnebago1

History

Lake Winnebago belongs to the mid-20th-century pattern of private lake communities on the metro fringe that later incorporated for local control (compare Lake Lotawana, Lake Tapawingo, Lake Quivira).¹ It became a village in 1963 and upgraded to a fourth-class city by election in 1975.¹

Sources

See also

• greenwood-mo
• lake-lotawana-mo
• raymore-mo
• Wiki

Footnotes

1. Wikipedia — “Lake Winnebago, Missouri.” — asserts: Cass County; 2020 pop. 1,433; area ~2.73 sq mi; two wards around the lake; village 1963; fourth-class city 1975; KC metro membership; coordinates ~38.82972°N 94.37833°W. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸