Gladstone is a city in Clay County, Missouri, United States and a suburb of Kansas City. The City of Gladstone is located lonesome 10 minutes from downtown Kansas City, and 10 minutes from Kansas City International Airport. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 27,063. It is share of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

The Atkins-Johnson Farmhouse Property was listed upon the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

Under declare statute, Gladstone is a city of the third class. It has a council-manager form of government. The City Council consists of five members popularly elected every three years, with staggered terms in office. The mayor presides higher than council meetings, appoints members to resident boards and commissions, meets later than constituents, and signs ordinances, resolutions, contracts, and agreements authorized by the council. The City Manager administers city operations and implements policies set by the City Council.

Gladstone is located at 39°12′42″N 94°33′42″W / 39.21167°N 94.56167°W / 39.21167; -94.56167 (39.211752, -94.561687). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total Place of 8.06 square miles (20.88 km²), of which 8.05 square miles (20.85 km) is home and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km²) is water. The city is connected to available North Kansas City and Kansas City proper by Routes 1 and 283 as skillfully as to hand U.S. Route 169, which sits less than one mile from the city’s western border. I-29 runs near the city’s southernmost tip shortly after its initial crack from I-35. A handful of little subdivisions maintain independent municipalities along North Oak Trafficway, a road which is host to much of the area’s shopping. The city is rectangular in shape, with the city limits generally extending from NE Englewood Road or NE 55th to NE 77th south to north, and N. Jackson Ave. to N. Broadway east to west. The city boundaries tally up a panhandle that goes south to NW 44th St. and from NW Briarcliff Ln. to Gladstone Waterworks Rd. from east to west. A share of the panhandle was de-annexed by Kansas City and annexed by Gladstone in 2005 to bring the Gladstone Water Plant property within the Gladstone city limits.