Explore Albany, Missouri, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Albany, Missouri. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Missouri or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Albany.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Albany |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Gentry County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.247893 |
| Longitude | -94.333455 |
| Population | 1,679 |
| Density | 265.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 64077, 64402 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Albany |
| School District | Albany R-III School District |
Albany holds its place upon the high, open plains of northwest Missouri, where the earth stretches wide under a sky that seems to possess more depth than the land itself. It lies 29.3 miles east-southeast of Maryville, MO (from Maryville, MO: bearing 103°T), and is situated 16.0 miles west of Bethany. The Town Branch cuts a modest, persistent path through the local topography, carving a shallow depression that gathers the morning mist before the sun burns it away into the tall prairie grasses. To the south and west, the horizon remains unobstructed, save for the distant, hazy suggestion of the Pinhook Hills that rise like a bruise against the fading light of dusk. A short mile to the east, Lee Lake holds the reflections of passing clouds in its quiet, dark water, providing a stillness that contrasts with the expansive, wind-swept nature of the surrounding fields. The climate here is defined by the heavy, humid heat of midsummer and the sharp, biting frost that settles over the soil once the harvest is complete.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Albany, with the economy tethered to the rhythmic cycle of planting and the subsequent labor of the grain elevators. This land was settled by families who sought the deep, fertile loam of the plains, building their lives around the steady commerce of the county seat. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the landscape yields to the managed wilderness of the Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo, where the prairie is left to recover its wilder, original character. Further afield, the rugged terrain of Possum Hollow offers a break in the otherwise predictable geometry of the farmland, while the timbered expanse of the Grand Trace State Forest marks the territory where the open country begins to yield to thicker, ancient groves. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of those who work the earth, a place where the social fabric is stitched together by the shared seasons and the quiet, plain-spoken habits of the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Albany, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.247893, -94.333455. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Albany includes the ZIP code (64077, 64402), telephone area code (816), county seat of Gentry County (Albany), and school district assignment (Albany R-III School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |