Blythedale Missouri Map

About Blythedale, Missouri

Blythedale is a locality in Harrison County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 211. The population density is 265.4 people per km². Blythedale is located at 40.4753°N, 93.9269°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Blythedale is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64426.

Blythedale occupies a quiet expanse of Harrison County where the horizon stretches wide across the Missouri plains, defined by the persistent, unyielding geometry of agricultural life. It lies 50.5 miles east of Maryville, MO (from Maryville, MO: bearing 80°T), and is situated 15.3 miles north-northeast of Bethany. The land here slopes with a subtle, rhythmic intention toward the East Fork Big Creek, a waterway that marks the landscape with its deliberate, slow-moving passage just a mile from the center of Blythedale. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the terrain opens into the vast, tallgrass expanses of Dunn Ranch Prairie, where the wind moves through native stalks with a sound like dry husks rubbing together. When the afternoon light slants low, the golden hues of the grasses and the distant, dark silhouette of Grand Trace State Forest create a stillness that feels as old as the soil itself.

Blythedale emerged from the steady labor of those who recognized the fertility of these northern reaches, establishing an economy rooted firmly in the cycles of harvest and the quiet commerce of the plains. While the proximity of East Fork Big Creek Watershed Lake A-4 offers a localized sanctuary for the patient angler or the traveler seeking a moment of reflection, the life of the residents remains tethered to the enduring tradition of the family farm. There is a particular honesty in the way the local day begins, marked by the mechanical hum of field equipment and the slow, deliberate pace of a community that measures time by the seasons rather than the clock. Even as the modern world encroaches, the character of Blythedale persists in its plain-spoken reliability, a place where the weight of history is carried not in monuments, but in the calloused hands and steady persistence of its people.

About This Blythedale Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Blythedale, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.475279, -93.926895. 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 Blythedale includes the ZIP code (64426), telephone area code (816), county seat of Harrison County (Bethany), and school district assignment (North Harrison R-III 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.