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Gainesville Missouri Map

Explore Gainesville, 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.

Interactive Map of Gainesville, Missouri

How to Use This Gainesville, Missouri Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Gainesville, 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 Gainesville.

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	Gainesville
State	Missouri (MO)
County	Ozark County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	36.603118
Longitude	-92.428217
Population	745
Density	100.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	65655
Area Code	417
County Seat	Gainesville
School District	Gainesville R-V School District

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About Gainesville, Missouri

Gainesville is a locality in Ozark County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 745. The population density is 100.2 people per km². Gainesville is located at 36.6031°N, 92.4282°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gainesville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 65655.

Gainesville occupies a landscape defined by the persistent, winding course of Lick Creek, which carves a path through the limestone-heavy terrain of the Missouri Ozarks. It lies 33.1 miles west-southwest of West Plains, MO (from West Plains, MO: bearing 255°T), and is situated 18.7 miles north of Mountain Home. The earth here rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells, punctuated by the rugged silhouette of Little Pinnacle rising to the north and the quiet, shaded depths of Smith Spring Hollow. Beyond the immediate tree line, the horizon is dominated by the dense, tangled woodlands that stretch toward the Timber Knob Towersite, where the air often holds the crisp, metallic scent of damp shale and decaying oak. As the sun dips low, the light flattens against the hills, turning the fields a bruised purple and casting long, sharp shadows that seem to anchor the land firmly against the shifting sky.

Gainesville serves as an enduring center for the surrounding rural expanse, where the economy remains tethered to the slow cycles of timber, livestock, and the modest commerce of a working county seat. History here is marked not by grand monuments, but by the generational memory of families who have farmed these rocky slopes, adapting their lives to the seasonal rise of the creeks and the isolation of the timbered ridges. Life in Gainesville moves with the deliberate pace of a place that measures time by the harvest and the changing color of the canopy rather than the clock. Residents often look toward the expansive, still waters of Norfork Lake, which sits just a short distance away, offering a contrast to the dense forests and narrow hollows that define the daily rhythm of the region.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Timber Knob Towersite (State Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 220° SW
Caney Mountain Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 359° N
Norfork Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 6.4 mi, 119° SE
Bull Shoals Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 7.4 mi, 249° W
Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 7.6 mi, 296° NW · 1.5M acres
State Line (Monument) — 12.0 mi, 127° SE
House Ruins (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 140° SE
Sheriff's Hollow Overlook (Viewpoint) — 14.9 mi, 074° E
Devils Backbone Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 15.5 mi, 063° NE · 6,691 acres
Mountain Home Farmer's Market (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 172° S
Mountain Home High School A-7 Corsair (Monument) — 18.8 mi, 175° S
Paper Airplane Donald's Imagination (Monument) — 20.0 mi, 174° S
Willie Lee (Historic Ruins) — 20.9 mi, 289° W
Hercules-Glades Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 25.3 mi, 284° W · 12k acres
Ruined Building (Historic Ruins) — 25.9 mi, 286° W
Ozark National Forest (National Forest) — 27.2 mi, 167° S · 1.1M acres
Trail Head Lower Wilderness. (Attraction) — 30.7 mi, 184° S
Rock Garden (Attraction) — 32.5 mi, 171° S
Grizzly Statue (Public Artwork) — 32.9 mi, 074° E
Ozark Medieval Fortress (Historic Castle / Fort) — 37.0 mi, 252° W

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