Oak Grove is a city in Jackson and Lafayette counties in the U.S. state of Missouri.

[5] It was named for a grove of oak trees near the original town site.

[6] On March 6, 2017, just before 9:00 pm CDT (03:00 UTC),[7] a tornado touched down near the western edge of Oak Grove and tracked eastward across the city.

483 houses and 12 businesses were damaged,[8] particularly between 25th and Broadway Streets across the southern part of the city.

A total of fifteen people suffered injuries, but remarkably there were no fatalities.

[10] Missouri Governor Eric Greitens declared a state of emergency for the area, and traveled to Oak Grove on March 7, where he visited first responders and tornado victims.

They also print the newspaper for the town of Odessa, that paper is called The Odessan.

[13] In the early 1980s an edition of the Monopoly board game that was themed around the town.

21.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.