Bigelow Missouri Map

About Bigelow, Missouri

Bigelow is a locality in Holt County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 5. The population density is 20.1 people per km². Bigelow is located at 40.1106°N, 95.2897°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bigelow is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64437.

Bigelow occupies a quiet stretch of Missouri earth where the horizon is defined by the steady, unpretentious breadth of the plains. It lies 27.4 miles southwest of Maryville, MO (from Maryville, MO: bearing 234°T), and is situated 16.9 miles east-northeast of Falls City. The Old Channel Little Tarkio Creek carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, acting as a perennial companion to the fields that surround the settlement. To the east, the rise of Pigeon Ridge breaks the flatness of the skyline, providing a faint, jagged silhouette against the deep violet of a Midwestern dusk. Mallard Marsh sits just a mile away, its stagnant, reed-fringed waters reflecting the passage of geese and the changing light of the seasons. The Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge blankets the immediate surroundings, grounding Bigelow in a protected expanse of tallgrass and timber where the air carries the dry, honest scent of disturbed soil and drying corn husks.

Bigelow functions as a place defined by the heavy, rhythmic labor of the harvest and the deep, silent cycles of the agricultural year. The local economy remains tethered to the fertility of the silt-heavy ground, a practice that has persisted since the earliest settlers recognized the value of the bottomlands. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a tractor crawling across a fallow field, a tempo that suggests a profound indifference to the frantic speed of the wider world. Men and women carry the plain-spoken habits of the region, their lives shaped by the solitude of the open acreage and the occasional, communal gathering that marks a change in the weather or the end of a long season. Even as the modern world encroaches, Bigelow maintains a stubborn, quiet dignity, surviving on the thin, durable threads of tradition and the constant, patient work of those who remain to tend the earth.

About This Bigelow Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bigelow, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.110552, -95.2897. 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 Bigelow includes the ZIP code (64437), telephone area code (816), county seat of Holt County (Oregon), and school district assignment (Mound City R-II 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.