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Bates City Missouri Map

Explore Bates City, 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.

Interactive Map of Bates City, Missouri

How to Use This Bates City, Missouri Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bates City, 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 Bates City.

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	Bates City
State	Missouri (MO)
County	Lafayette County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.006119
Longitude	-94.072446
Population	219
Density	78.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	64011
Area Code	816
County Seat	Lexington
School District	Odessa R-VII School District

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About Bates City, Missouri

Bates City is a locality in Lafayette County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 219. The population density is 78.1 people per km². Bates City is located at 39.0061°N, 94.0724°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bates City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64011.

Bates City anchors itself firmly within the expansive, sun-drenched plains of Missouri, where the horizon stretches wide and the sky claims a vast, heavy portion of the visual field. It lies 6.8 miles east of Grain Valley, MO (from Grain Valley, MO: bearing 95°T), and is situated 3.1 miles east of Oak Grove. The terrain here is defined by open horizons and the subtle, rhythmic swell of earth that characterizes this interior landscape, interrupted only by the narrow, winding path of Little Horseshoe Creek as it cuts through the local soil. To the south, the faint, hazy silhouette of Devil Ridge marks the distant boundary of the world, while the Ferguson-Herold Conservation Area provides a quiet refuge of native grasses and timber that softens the edges of the surrounding farmland. The quality of light during the late afternoon turns the fields a deep, burnished gold, casting long, thin shadows that seem to stretch toward the gentle, glassy surface of Holiday Lake nearby.

Bates City maintains a quiet, industrious character, its pulse tied to the seasonal cycles of agriculture and the steady transit of commerce moving across the central Missouri corridor. Since its early days, the settlement has functioned as a waypoint for those navigating the interior, balancing the pragmatic needs of modern farming with the lingering, plain-spoken traditions of its original settlers. Life in Bates City moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands the value of patience, where the daily rhythm is dictated by the arrival of shipments and the maintenance of the homesteads that define the perimeter. There is a quiet beauty in the way the local economy remains grounded in the soil and the road, a testament to a community that prefers the steady reliability of its own labor over the frantic noise of the larger world beyond its fields.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ferguson-Herold Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 184° S
Webb Park (Local Park) — 2.4 mi, 259° W
Sni-A-Bar Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.0 mi, 342° N
Caraway Lake (Local Park) — 3.3 mi, 303° NW
Monkey Mountain Park And Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 272° W
Odessa Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 5.9 mi, 100° E
Odessa Radio Facility (State Recreation Area) — 8.3 mi, 080° E
William L Landahl Park Reserve (Local Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 297° NW
Summerfield Pillars (Public Artwork) — 9.1 mi, 284° W
In Loving Memory of Janea Kelly, RN (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 278° W
Railroad/Rotary Park Entrance Sign (Monument) — 10.7 mi, 275° W
Battle of Lone Jack (Monument) — 11.1 mi, 209° SW
Glades Observation Station (Viewpoint) — 12.2 mi, 284° W
Missouri Town Living History Museum Visitor Center (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 260° W
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 13.5 mi, 335° NW · 32k acres
Natural Bridge (Attraction) — 18.1 mi, 257° W
Hazel Hill Lake (State Recreation Area) — 18.3 mi, 125° SE
STG Studio (Theatre) — 18.8 mi, 251° W
Harry S Truman National Historic Site Visitor Center (Attraction) — 19.4 mi, 288° W
National Frontier Trails Museum (Museum) — 19.6 mi, 288° W
The Peace Pavilion (Museum) — 19.7 mi, 288° W
Live Art Aquatics (Arts Centre) — 21.0 mi, 286° W
Pottery Art (Gallery) — 21.0 mi, 286° W
Winner Road Gallery (Gallery) — 21.0 mi, 286° W
Engelwood Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 21.0 mi, 286° W
Sugar Creek Historical Society (Museum) — 21.3 mi, 291° W
Chimpanzees (Attraction) — 24.0 mi, 269° W
Crocodile (Attraction) — 24.0 mi, 269° W
Knob Noster State Park (State Park) — 29.5 mi, 127° SE
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo (National Wildlife Refuge) — 41.0 mi, 167° S · 3,906 acres

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