Explore Arcola, 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 Arcola, 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 Arcola.
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 | Arcola |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Dade County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.54921 |
| Longitude | -93.875214 |
| Population | 37 |
| Density | 55.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 65603 |
| Area Code | 417 |
| County Seat | Greenfield |
| School District | Greenfield R-IV School District |
Arcola exists as a quiet punctuation mark upon the Missouri landscape, defined by the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons across its modest fields. It lies 25.8 miles west of Bolivar, MO (from Bolivar, MO: bearing 260°T), and is situated 33.0 miles southeast of Nevada. The topography here avoids the dramatic, favoring instead a gentle, rhythmic rise and fall of earth that leads toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Indian Ridge on the horizon. Moisture gathers in the low-lying basins like Carlo Hollow, where the air holds a persistent, cool weight even during the height of a dry summer. Only a mile away, the modest flow of Googer Creek cuts a thin, silver thread through the soil, providing a constant, soft percussion to the silence of the surrounding woodlands. As evening approaches, the light across Arcola shifts from a sharp, clinical gold to a soft, bruised violet, casting long shadows that seem to stretch the very grain of the land toward the expanse of Stockton Lake, which glimmers just two miles beyond the local borders.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the local economy, with the rhythm of the year dictated by the planting and harvest cycles that have sustained this ground for generations. While the Stockton Recreation Area offers a nearby space for those seeking the stillness of the water, the daily life of Arcola is anchored in the persistent, plain-spoken labor of its residents. The history of the place is built not on grand monuments, but on the steady accumulation of small, private efforts that keep the fences mended and the roads clear. There is a distinct, unadorned honesty to the way the days unfold here, marked by the mechanical hum of farm equipment and the occasional passage of a truck on the blacktop. Nothing about Arcola clamors for attention, yet the land possesses a stubborn, quiet endurance that lingers in the memory long after the traveler has moved on to more crowded horizons.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Arcola, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.54921, -93.875214. 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 Arcola includes the ZIP code (65603), telephone area code (417), county seat of Dade County (Greenfield), and school district assignment (Greenfield R-IV 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. |