Explore Bigelow, 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 Bigelow, 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 Bigelow.
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 | Bigelow |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Holt County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.110552 |
| Longitude | -95.2897 |
| Population | 5 |
| Density | 20.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 64437 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Oregon |
| School District | Mound City R-II School District |
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.
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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).
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. |