Explore Chaffee, 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 Chaffee, 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 Chaffee.
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 | Chaffee |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Scott County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.180051 |
| Longitude | -89.65509 |
| Population | 3,057 |
| Density | 657.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 63740 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Benton |
| School District | Chaffee R-II School District |
Chaffee rises from the flat, fertile expanse of the Bootheel, where the slow, deliberate current of Hindman Creek marks the rhythm of the surrounding fields. It lies 11.5 miles southwest of Cape Girardeau, MO (from Cape Girardeau, MO: bearing 221°T), and is situated 7.6 miles west-southwest of Scott City. Beyond the modest rise of Cox Hill, the horizon holds a vast, open quality, allowing the late afternoon light to stretch long, thin shadows across the earth until the landscape glows with the pale gold of ripening crops. The air here carries the scent of damp loam and cooling soil, a stillness that settles over the flatlands as the day wanes into a quiet, violet dusk. At the center of this terrain, Circle Park provides a small, green anchor, a patch of managed grass where the flatness of the region meets the sky in an unbroken line.
History in Chaffee remains tethered to the iron rails that once defined the movement of goods and people across these plains, leaving behind a legacy of industry that still shapes the local economy. While the distant, ancient depressions of the Old Caney Basin suggest a deeper, geological past, the current life of the area is measured in the steady, industrial work that sustains the population. The character of the people reflects a plain-spoken resilience, a pragmatic inheritance from those who broke the soil and laid the tracks. Far from the distant, shimmering surface of Brown Lake, the residents find their focus in the immediate, solid tasks of the day, moving through a landscape that demands consistency and rewards a patient, grounded perspective on the passing seasons.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chaffee, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.180051, -89.65509. 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 Chaffee includes the ZIP code (63740), telephone area code (816), county seat of Scott County (Benton), and school district assignment (Chaffee 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. |