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Big Lake Missouri Map

Explore Big Lake, 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 Big Lake, Missouri

How to Use This Big Lake, Missouri Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Big Lake, 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 Big Lake.

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	Big Lake
State	Missouri (MO)
County	Holt County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	40.072698
Longitude	-95.350447
Population	65
Density	15.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	64437
Area Code	816
County Seat	Oregon
School District	Craig R-III School District

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About Big Lake, Missouri

Big Lake is a locality in Holt County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 65. The population density is 15.2 people per km². Big Lake is located at 40.0727°N, 95.3504°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Big Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64437.

Big Lake occupies a low-lying basin where the vast, flat expanse of the Missouri plains meets the quiet, persistent accumulation of seasonal floodwaters. It lies 31.1 miles southwest of Maryville, MO (from Maryville, MO: bearing 234°T), and is situated 13.4 miles east of Falls City. The landscape is defined by the expansive, shimmering surface of Big Lake itself, an oxbow remnant that stretches across the horizon like a fallen mirror, reflecting the heavy, golden light that settles over the region at dusk. To the east, the distant, hazy silhouette of Pigeon Ridge provides a subtle verticality to an otherwise horizontal world, while the Old Channel Tarkio River meanders through the surrounding silt-heavy soil, carving a path of muted, earthy browns and deep greens. The air here carries the scent of damp earth and tall grasses, a stillness that seems to suspend time, save for the occasional ripple on the water’s surface or the sudden, rhythmic ascent of waterfowl taking flight into the cooling evening sky.

Big Lake State Park serves as the primary steward of this terrain, preserving the marshy fringes and woodland patches that characterize the locality’s natural heritage. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the soil, with agriculture dictating the seasonal pulse of the local inhabitants who navigate the fertile, black dirt of the surrounding fields. History here is written in the slow accretion of sediment and the deliberate, unhurried pace of those who live between the river's path and the basin's edge. While Mill Hollow remains a distant geological memory to the southeast, the immediate life of Big Lake is centered on the quiet endurance of the land, where the local culture favors the plain-spoken honesty of the plains and a deep-seated connection to the changing moods of the weather and the water.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Big Lake State Park (State Park) — 0.4 mi, 060° NE
Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.1 mi, 055° NE · 15k acres
Leary Site (Historic Ruins) — 5.4 mi, 206° SW
Mccormack Loess Mounds (Conservation Area) — 6.0 mi, 104° E
Margrave Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.2 mi, 236° SW
Brown (Bob) Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.6 mi, 143° SE
Dinosaur (Public Artwork) — 8.6 mi, 352° N
Richardson County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 13.3 mi, 268° W
Richardson County Military History Museum (Museum) — 13.3 mi, 267° W
John Philip Falter Museum (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 267° W
Indian Cave State Park (State Park) — 14.7 mi, 321° NW
Brown State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 15.0 mi, 184° S
Brown State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 15.2 mi, 185° S
First Oil Well Historical Marker (Monument) — 17.0 mi, 268° W
HCC Art at the Barn (Arts Centre) — 17.2 mi, 203° SW
Veteran's Memorial (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 212° SW
Grave of Homer White (Monument) — 17.3 mi, 213° SW
Brown County Ag Museum (Museum) — 18.0 mi, 210° SW
Windmill Lane (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 210° SW
Hiawatha Area Arts and Theater Society (Theatre) — 18.2 mi, 213° SW
Nelson Rogers Residence (Attraction) — 24.1 mi, 145° SE
Kansas Historical Marker - Troy (Attraction) — 24.9 mi, 141° SE
Muir House Historical Marker (Attraction) — 27.6 mi, 324° NW
Brownville Historical Marker (Attraction) — 27.6 mi, 324° NW
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.3 mi, 095° E · 3,906 acres
Historic Caretakers Cabin (Historic Ruins) — 28.5 mi, 199° S
The Rose Theatre (Theatre) — 31.5 mi, 053° NE

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