Unity Village, MO

Unity Village is a village in Jackson County, Missouri, United States, bordering Kansas City and Lee's Summit. The 2020 census counted 66 residents. Unity Village is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The founders of the Unity spiritual movement, Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, purchased a 58-acre farm in 1919 as a weekend getaway for employees of their downtown Kansas City headquarters. The short version is that Unity Village carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Unity Village: its past remains attached to the places people use now. In March 1920, the land came to be known as Unity Farm, and the following purchase of 12 surrounding farms expanded the land to nearly 1,500 acres. Unity Village is 15 miles southeast of downtown Kansas City,. Unity Village's downtown is part of the local map.