Summit Township is one of twenty-four townships in Bates County, Missouri, and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area within the USA.

As of the 2000 census, its population was 317.

[1] Summit Township was so named on account of the relatively elevated prairies within its borders.

[2] According to the United States Census Bureau, Summit Township covers an area of 35.89 square miles (92.97 square kilometers); of this, 35.84 square miles (92.83 square kilometers, 99.85 percent) is land and 0.05 square miles (0.14 square kilometers, 0.15 percent) is water.

The township contains these two cemeteries: Elizabeth Chapel and Glass.