Clinton Missouri Map

About Clinton, Missouri

Clinton is a locality in Phelps County, Missouri, United States. It has a population of approximately 9,174. The population density is 386.2 people per km². Clinton is located at 38.3712°N, 93.7681°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Clinton is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 65560, 64735.

Clinton sits upon a landscape where the flat expanse of the plains begins to yield to the encroaching, subtle architecture of the Ozark foothills. It lies 15.0 miles southeast of Rolla, MO (from Rolla, MO: bearing 129°T), and is situated 11.7 miles north of Salem. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar weight, heavy and golden as it spills over the horizon toward the rise of Schuman Ridge, casting long, bruised shadows that stretch across the fields. The earth is a patchwork of deep, dark loam, occasionally broken by the quiet, winding progress of West Fork Benton Creek, which traces a path through the brush like a silver thread pulled through heavy velvet. Nearby, the stillness of Seven Springs Lake catches the changing sky, its surface mirroring the vast, empty clarity of the Missouri air.

Clinton maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of the soil and the legacy of its frontier transit. The local economy persists with a pragmatic endurance, rooted in the trade and industry that once hitched its fortunes to the expansion of the rail lines. While the modern pace hums with the steady movement of commerce, one can still find the quietude of the past in the surrounding tracts of land, such as the protected acreage of Hyer Woods Conservation Area, where the forest floor remains untroubled by the urgency of the present. Life here is defined by a plain-spoken continuity, where the collective memory of the settlers lingers in the brickwork of the square, and the horizon, framed by the distant silhouette of higher ground, reminds the traveler that they are standing at the threshold of a vast, unfolding interior.

About This Clinton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Clinton, Missouri. Coordinates: 38.371172, -93.768142. 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 Clinton includes the ZIP code (65560, 64735), telephone area code (573, 816), county seat of Phelps County (Rolla), and school district assignment (Clinton 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.