Lone Elm, Kansas

About Lone Elm

Lone Elm is a tiny community in eastern Kansas with an estimated population of 22.

Lone Elm holds the status of an incorporated city with its own municipal government. The community covers 0.07 square miles, giving it wide-open spaces and a spread-out, rural feel at roughly 314 residents per square mile.

📰 Lone Elm News Today

• Lenexa, Olathe neighbors brace for K-10, Lone Elm interchange as federal grant moves project forward KSHB 41 Kansas City · Aug 6
• City of Lenexa receives $16 million BUILD grant for Lone Elm Interchange Representative Sharice Davids | (.gov) · Jul 13
• Lone Elm Weather Today & Hourly Forecast SpaceRef · Aug 30
• Midwest firm that builds tech for data centers plans expansion in Olathe Kansas City Star · Jul 28
• K-10, Lone Elm interchange forces Olathe to relocate utilities Olathe Reporter · May 7

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What Makes Lone Elm Unique

• The only place in America named Lone Elm — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• One of the smallest municipal footprints in the country at just 0.07 sq mi.
• With 22 residents, it's one of America's smallest incorporated communities — everybody really does know everybody.
• Positioned in eastern Kansas, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 7 miles.

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