Cass County, Missouri

Cass County
Cass County
County
	County courthouse in Harrisonville
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	Location within the U.S. state of Missouri
	Missouri's location within the U.S.
	Coordinates: 38°39′N 94°21′W / 38.65°N 94.35°W
Country	United States
State	Missouri
Founded	March 3, 1835
Named for	Lewis Cass
Seat	Harrisonville
Government
• County Commission	Presiding Commissioner Bob Huston Associate Commissioner Monty Kisner Associate Commissioner Jimmy Odom
Area
• Total	702 sq mi (1,820 km2)
• Land	697 sq mi (1,810 km2)
• Water	5.7 sq mi (15 km2) 0.8%
Population (2020)
• Total	107,824
• Density	150/sq mi (59/km2)
Time zone	UTC−6 (Central)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−5 (CDT)
Congressional district	4th
Website	www.casscounty.com

Cass County is a county located in the western part of the U.S. state of Missouri and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 107,824.^[1] Its county seat is Harrisonville; however, the county contains a portion of Kansas City, Missouri.^[2] The county was organized in 1835 as Van Buren County, but was renamed in 1849 after U.S. Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan, who later became a presidential candidate.^[3]^[4]

^ "2020 Population and Housing State Data". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved September 8, 2021.
^ "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Archived from the original on May 31, 2011. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
^ Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp. 272.
^ "Disappearing Missouri Names". The Kansas City Star. March 19, 1911. p. 15. Archived from the original on August 19, 2014. Retrieved August 15, 2014 – via Newspapers.com.