Explore Burlington Junction, 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 Burlington Junction, 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 Burlington Junction.
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 | Burlington Junction |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Nodaway County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.445548 |
| Longitude | -95.066086 |
| Population | 521 |
| Density | 201.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 64428 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Maryville |
| School District | West Nodaway County R-I School District |
Burlington Junction emerges from the flat, earnest expanse of the Missouri plains, defined by the quiet persistence of Cuyhoga Creek as it carves a path through the dark, loamy soil. It lies 12.3 miles northwest of Maryville, MO (from Maryville, MO: bearing 304°T), and is situated 20.5 miles south of Clarinda. The landscape here is a study in horizontal lines, where the sky claims the greater portion of the horizon and the wind travels unimpeded across vast fields of corn and soybean. To the west, the distant Pinhook Hills provide a faint, serrated edge to the twilight, while the nearby Toad Hollow offers a subtle depression in the earth where shadows collect long before the sun has fully retreated. The quality of light at dusk is particularly heavy, turning the dusty roads to gold and lending a sudden, solemn clarity to the silhouettes of grain elevators that stand like sentinels over the fields.
Burlington Junction bears the quiet marks of a nineteenth-century rail era, though the steel arteries that once dictated its growth have long since faded into the rhythm of modern agricultural commerce. Life here moves in accordance with the turning of the seasons, a cycle punctuated by the proximity of the Bilby Ranch Lake Conservation Area, where the land is left to the wilder impulses of timber and tall grass. Locals often find their solitude near the banks of the Hoover Frankum Watershed B-23 Lake, a place where the water mirrors the shifting cloud formations with an uncanny, glassy stillness. The economy remains tethered to the productivity of the surrounding acreage, manifesting in a modest, pragmatic culture that values the weight of a handshake and the endurance of a long-standing homestead over the fleeting noise of the outside world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Burlington Junction, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.445548, -95.066086. 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 Burlington Junction includes the ZIP code (64428), telephone area code (816), county seat of Nodaway County (Maryville), and school district assignment (West Nodaway County R-I 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. |