Explore Anniston, 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 Anniston, 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 Anniston.
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 | Anniston |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Mississippi County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.825888 |
| Longitude | -89.327851 |
| Population | 180 |
| Density | 177.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 63820 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Charleston |
| School District | Charleston R-I School District |
Anniston anchors itself firmly upon the flat, expansive lowlands of the Bootheel, where the horizon stretches wide and unobstructed under a vast, pale sky. It lies 14.8 miles east-southeast of Sikeston, MO (from Sikeston, MO: bearing 104°T), and is situated 6.7 miles south of Charleston. The earth here is dark and heavy, a testament to the ancient sedimentation that defines the region, while the slow, deliberate pulse of Black Bayou marks the landscape just a mile away, threading through the fields like a vein of cool, dark glass. To the distant west, the faint, hazy suggestion of O'Bryan Ridge breaks the monotony of the plains, though the land immediately around Anniston remains defined by its devotion to the plow and the wide, sun-drenched canopy of the sky. When the heat of the afternoon breaks, the light turns a deep, bruised gold, casting long shadows across the fields and catching the ripples on the surface of Ricefield Pond, which rests in quiet seclusion three miles from the center of the grid.
Agricultural labor has long served as the primary current of life in Anniston, shaping the daily movements of the people who tend to the sprawling crops that reach toward the edges of the horizon. The rhythm of the seasons dictates the pace of the locale, shifting from the frantic machinery of harvest to the profound, winter-quiet stillness that settles over the soil. Residents seeking respite often venture toward the East Prairie Swimming Pool, a modest local fixture four miles away that serves as a communal gathering point during the humid, stifling months of midsummer. History here is written not in monuments, but in the enduring fence lines and the persistent work of hands that have cultivated this flat expanse for generations, maintaining a plain-spoken integrity that matches the unadorned, honest character of the Missouri earth.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Anniston, Missouri. Coordinates: 36.825888, -89.327851. 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 Anniston includes the ZIP code (63820), telephone area code (816), county seat of Mississippi County (Charleston), and school district assignment (Charleston R-I 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. |