Smithville Clerks: City Hall vs County Clerk

Thomas Garner
Aug 19
12 min read

Updated: 6 days ago

Smithville town grid against the USACE dam

Smithville sits about thirty minutes north of Kansas City via I-29 and MO-92. It is a Clay County reservoir town beside a 7,190-acre USACE lake, not a standalone heritage desk and not downtown Kansas City. It does not share a clerk with Weston. City hall answers at from 107 West Main Street. Clay County Clerk answers at from 1 Courthouse Square, Liberty. The Jerry Litton Visitor Center answers at from 16311 County Rd DD. That last line is a visitor desk, not a permit shop.

The published year stays on this cell. Smithville is $32,889 on 20 listings, ADR $238, occupancy 51.8 percent, RevPAR $124, vintage June 2025 through May 2026. Peak months are March, December, and April. November is the hole. Year over year is plus 8.5 percent. Label Weston and Liberty. Do not mash those offices. Do not file Weston paper on this driveway. Chapter 625 is the city file inside city limits. A lake parcel outside the city is a different desk.

The first question is which city hall covers the parcel. City of Smithville and Clay County are two separate offices on the same Northland map. USACE is a third voice and not a permit shop. Weston is a fourth desk you do not call from this town. A listing that says cabin near Kansas City has not named a clerk. Pull the parcel first. I-29 and MO-92 do not assign the hall. Liberty is the county seat. It does not inherit this city STR file.

City Hall Sits at 107 West Main

The first question is not which ramp the guest will book. The first question is which city hall covers the parcel. City of Smithville and Clay County are two separate offices on the same Northland map. USACE is a third voice and not a permit shop. Weston is a fourth desk you do not call from this cell. A listing that says cabin near Kansas City has not named a clerk. A listing that says Kansas City when the tax map says Smithville has named the wrong one. Pull the parcel before you pull the photography.

I-29 and MO-92 run the thirty minutes. They do not assign the hall. The reservoir sits on Corps land and on city and county recreation. City hall sits at 107 West Main. The county clerk sits on the square in Liberty. Guests can drive Kansas City and this cell in a morning. The clerk cannot.The three identitieskeep the towns apart on the tile. The call sheet keeps them apart on the phone. Liberty is the county seat. It does not inherit this city STR permit.

If the address is ambiguous, stop advertising. Call the city or the county that matches the tax map and ask which desk owns the parcel in 2026. Do not ask Smithville hall to speak for Weston. Do not ask Clay County to bless a Kansas City mash. Do not ask the Corps visitor center to bless a short-term use. The town is modest. The hall is specific. 20 listings do not make the map optional. Read the map, then dial the phone that matches it. A launch itinerary is not a tax map. The driveway has one clerk.

How to reach City Hall

City of Smithville hall is at 107 West Main Street, Smithville, MO 64089. Linda Drummond is the clerk. Hours are Monday through Friday, eight to five. This is the city desk in a commuter reservoir town, not Kansas City hall and not the Liberty square. That line matters for which packet you carry and which remittance path you confirm. Chapter 625 applies inside city limits. Applications go to the Development Department at the same hall. No separate Development phone is confirmed this pass. Start here.

There is a published Smithville year. It is $32,889 on 20 listings. Do not quote Weston $47,063 as this hall's year. Do not quote Liberty $36,204. The reservoir is a launch hook. It is not a license.The market extractalready records the cell. The clerk file records the address. Hours are eight to five on weekdays. Walk in with the parcel, not with a Kansas City mash. Linda Drummond sits on that hall. Start with her line.

Ask the hall whether the parcel sits inside the city, what remittance path 2026 still requires, and whether the live 625.080 text still matches the 2023 file you printed. Bring the parcel, the site plan if you have it, and the platform URL you intend to run. Leave McCormick Distillery out of the zoning question. This hall answers for Smithville. Confirm remittance separately. Tax is not occupancy. A Saturday launch does not rewrite the city line. Two-bedroom houses at a six-guest capacity are the extract size. That size is not a city license, and the hall will not mint one because a guest wants a Friday key.

Clay County Clerk Sits in Liberty

The city phone is. That is the number on 107 West Main. Start there for Chapter 625, the occupation license path, and the Development Department that takes the per-unit permit. The 2023 text locked a $50 annual permit, a responsible agent, liability insurance at or above $500,000, a noise management plan with continuous monitoring while rented, and occupancy of two adults per bedroom plus two in common living space. Confirm every line at the counter in 2026.

Do not invent a second city number because a broker memo says Development. This pass did not confirm a separate Development phone. The hall is. Fax exists. It is not the clerk's office. Linda Drummond answers that line. Use it. Confirm 2026 on that call.Startup costskeep the $50 permit off the furnish fantasy. This section keeps the phone in view.

Ask whether your block face still has room under the 2023 cap language, whether one license already sits on that street, and what the live 625.080 rewrite actually says. The 2023 text also locked one license per block face and a cap at 3 percent of city housing stock. confirm rewrite at the clerk. Do not invent a new number. Bring the parcel inside this city, not a Weston card you hope the commuter lake will cover. If the driveway is outside city limits, hang up and call the county. If the driveway is Weston, that is a different cluster. The two towns do not share this clerk. Remittance is still not occupancy, and occupancy is still not the clerk.

County Is

Clay County Clerk sits at Clay County Administration, 1 Courthouse Square, Liberty, MO 64068. Stacey Tingle is the clerk. This is the County market, not the city desk and not an USACE permit shop. County licenses live here. The city STR permit does not. Chapter 625 is a Smithville ordinance. It does not travel to every Clay County driveway just because the lake is in the county.

The county seat is Liberty. The county is not a spare Kansas City clerk. Do not carry Weston short-term paper into 1 Courthouse Square and hope the square will cover a Smithville lake house. Do not carry a Kansas City mash and hope the county seat will bless it. Liberty $36,204 is a labeled neighbor year,, on a different vintage. It is not this permit.The buyer packetalready warns that two halls travel with the deed. This section keeps the county phone in view. Stacey Tingle sits on that square.

Ask whether the parcel is city or unincorporated county land, what 2026 remittance looks like, and which other County market, if any, still touches a lodging stay. Bring the parcel inside this county, not a Johnson County card a vendor scrape named Prairie Village. Kearney is a 404. Do not invent a Kearney clerk or a Kearney year. If the driveway is inside Smithville city, you still start at for Chapter 625. If the driveway is a lake house outside the city, this is the first human you call. The two phones exist because the two separate offices do not cover for each other.

USACE Visitor Center does not issue short-term rental licenses

The Jerry Litton Visitor Center sits at 16311 County Road DD, Smithville, MO 64089. That line is Kansas City District visitor landscape. It is not a short-term clerk's office. Corps Lakes Gateway will talk about the 7,190-acre lake, the dam, and recreation. It will not issue Chapter 625 paper. It will not stand in for Clay County. Do not file a visitor-center conversation as a license.

A tile that treats the Corps as the clerk is already wrong. A tile that treats lake acres as occupancy is also wrong.The tourism filekeeps visitor dollars off the host year. The clerk file repeats the warning so the phone tree stays honest. if a guest needs launch hours. if you need a city permit. if the parcel is county land. The Corps phone is visitor landscape only. Do not file it as diligence. Visitor hours are not a permit line.

Do not ask the visitor center to bless a wedding the city already banned inside Chapter 625. Do not ask the Corps to bless a noise plan. Do not treat a ranger conversation as a 2026 confirmation. If a broker packet cites the Litton Center as the hall, send the packet back. The visitor landscape is real. The clerk's office is not there. Keep on the guest page. Keep it off the loan file. Golf holes and dam views are recreation copy. They are not a license, and the Corps will not mint one because a guest wants a slip.

Chapter 625 Does Not Cover a Lake Parcel Outside City

Chapter 625 applies inside the City of Smithville. Bill 3013-23 enacted that chapter. The 2023 text is locked. Board of Aldermen action in February 2026 passed Bill 3096-26 enacting a new Section 625.080. confirm 625.080 text at the clerk before you draft a cap sentence. Do not invent a new number from a filename. A lake house outside city limits is a different desk: Clay County, USACE recreation rules, and whatever township paper the tax map still names.

Identification is the first step. A driveway that launches on the reservoir can still sit inside the city. A driveway that photographs the same water can sit outside it.The marketing fileis where the city-line photo note belongs after the parcel is right. This clerk page only refuses to file city paper on county land, or county paper as if it were Chapter 625. The 2023 3 percent cap language is city language. It does not follow the water.

Ask the hall which side of the line you hold. Then stop writing 625.050 advertisement rules onto a parcel the city does not own. Occupation-license numbers on every ad, responsible-agent joint liability, five-business-day agent updates, and the $50 per-unit permit are city lines. They are not a costume you paste onto every Clay County lake lot. If the clerk says you are outside, write that down and call. If the clerk says you are inside, write that down and stay on. confirm 625.080 text before you advertise a cap you printed from 2023.

Linda Drummond Is the City Clerk

Parcel is the first line. Confirm whether the driveway sits inside Smithville or on county land around the lake. Confirm that it is not a Weston card and not a Liberty card you hoped to borrow. A tile that names the wrong town teaches the guest the wrong overnight. A tile that names Kansas City as the pin teaches the guest the wrong region. Kansas City is thirty minutes on I-29, not this driveway.

AirROI neighborhoods mash Parkville, Excelsior Springs, and Prairie Village into this cell. Label those offices. They are not Smithville. Prairie Village is a Kansas desk.The visitor guidecan name Kansas City as the arrival. The clerk file cannot let the arrival rewrite the deed. McCormick Distillery is Weston. It is not this launch. Kearney is a 404. Do not invent a Kearney hall. Do not advertise a Parkville suburb as this cell. Confirm Clay County on the tax bill before you confirm the phone. 20 listings cannot survive a wrong city on the tile.

Confirm parcel, then confirm the hall, then write the stay. Do not advertise a Kansas City path on a Smithville driveway. Do not advertise a Weston distillery as this clerk. The two phones exist because the two separate offices do not cover for a metro. A live tile that already named the wrong city should come down until the hall and the remittance path match the driveway. Copy is cheaper to fix than a tax desk you advertised in public. 20 listings is a tiny cell. A wrong city on one of them teaches the whole extract the wrong overnight. Pull the map first.

What to Bring to the Desk

Bring the parcel number, the street address, and a simple statement of use: entire home or not, nights you intend to advertise, and whether you already have a live tile. Bring the platform URL if it exists. Bring proof of ownership or authorization. Bring a floor plan only if the hall asks. Do not bring a blended Weston T12. Do not bring reservoir acres or golf-hole counts as zoning evidence. Bring the 2023 Chapter 625 print only as a question, not as a finished answer.

For city hall at, ask whether the parcel is inside the city, what remittance 2026 still requires, and what the live 625.080 text says. For the county clerk at, ask the same questions on county land and on recording. For the Litton Center at, ask visitor hours, not for a permit. Confirm every answer as 2026.The DIY filecan wait until the hall has spoken. Copy is cheaper to rewrite than a listing that never had a clerk.

Leave with a name, a date, and the next form. If the hall says confirm the rewrite in writing, wait for the writing. The modest commuter-lake overnight starts at the counter, not at the ramp. Write the answer into the listing packet the same day. A remembered phone call is not a 2026 confirmation. If city and county both claim the parcel, stop and get the tax map in writing before either tile or note moves. Bring the $50 fee question only after the line is confirmed. A fee on the wrong desk is still the wrong desk.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is city hall?

107 West Main Street, Smithville, MO 64089. Hours Monday through Friday 8 to 5. City of Smithville hall is at 107 West Main Street, Smithville, MO 64089. City hall answers at from 107 West Main Street. Hours are Monday through Friday, eight to five. City hall sits at 107 West Main. For city hall at, ask whether the parcel is inside the city, what remittance 2026 still requires, and what the live 625.080 text says.

Where is county clerk?

1 Courthouse Square, Liberty, MO 64068. County licenses, not the city STR permit. Clay County Clerk sits at Clay County Administration, 1 Courthouse Square, Liberty, MO 64068. Clay County Clerk answers at from 1 Courthouse Square, Liberty. The county clerk sits on the square in Liberty. For the county clerk at, ask the same questions on county land and on recording.

Is USACE a clerk's office?

Jerry Litton Visitor Center, 16311 County Rd DD,, is a visitor desk. The Jerry Litton Visitor Center sits at 16311 County Road DD, Smithville, MO 64089. The Jerry Litton Visitor Center answers at from 16311 County Rd DD. For the Litton Center at, ask visitor hours, not for a permit. This is the County market, not the city desk and not an USACE permit shop.

Does Chapter 625 cover a lake parcel outside the city?

City file inside city limits. A lake parcel outside the city is a different desk. A lake house outside city limits is a different desk: Clay County, USACE recreation rules, and whatever township paper the tax map still names. It is a Clay County reservoir town beside a 7,190-acre USACE lake, not a standalone heritage desk and not downtown Kansas City.

Weston paper?

Do not file it on this driveway. Weston is a Platte County distillery town. Do not file Weston paper on this driveway. This clerk page only refuses to file city paper on county land, or county paper as if it were Chapter 625. Do not advertise a Weston distillery as this clerk. Do not advertise a Kansas City path on a Smithville driveway.

What is the extract?

Peak-3 March, December, April. Peak months are March, December, and April. A wrong city on one of them teaches the whole extract the wrong overnight. A tile that names Kansas City as the pin teaches the guest the wrong region. A tile that names the wrong town teaches the guest the wrong overnight. A live tile that already named the wrong city should come down until the hall and the remittance path match the driveway.

STR permits?

Development Department at the same hall. No separate Development phone was confirmed this pass. No separate Development phone is confirmed this pass. This pass did not confirm a separate Development phone. Applications go to the Development Department at the same hall. If the hall says confirm the rewrite in writing, wait for the writing. Confirm every answer as 2026.The DIY filecan wait until the hall has spoken.

What do I bring?

Then call the desk the map names. the city or the county that matches the tax map and ask which desk owns the parcel in 2026. Ask whether the parcel is city or unincorporated county land, what 2026 remittance looks like, and which other County market, if any, still touches a lodging stay. Ask the hall whether the parcel sits inside the city, what remittance path 2026 still requires, and whether the live 625.080 text still matches the 2023 file you printed.

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Stop asking the Corps visitor center or Weston hall to bless a Smithville driveway.

Bring the tax map. We will walk 107 West Main or 1 Courthouse Square and we will not flatten Chapter 625 onto a lake lot outside the city. Reach out at crestcove.co or (256) 998-7502.