Anniston Missouri Map

About Anniston, Missouri

Anniston is a locality in Mississippi County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 180. The population density is 177.7 people per km². Anniston is located at 36.8259°N, 89.3279°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Anniston is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 63820.

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.

About This Anniston Map Page

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).

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.