Galt Missouri Map

About Galt, Missouri

Galt is a locality in Grundy County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 168. The population density is 226.8 people per km². Galt is located at 40.1286°N, 93.3869°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Galt is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64641.

Galt sits amidst the quiet, expansive reach of the Missouri plains, where the horizon stretches flat and wide under a sky that feels immense and indifferent. It lies 42.7 miles west of Kirksville, MO (from Kirksville, MO: bearing 264°T), and is situated 12.6 miles east-northeast of Trenton. Little Medicine Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the earth nearby, its presence marked by a thin ribbon of brush and timber that offers the only vertical relief against the relentless horizon. The soil here is heavy and dark, a foundation for the vast, seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that dictate the cadence of the days. During the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, singular gold, catching the dust of the fields and illuminating the way the landscape holds onto the heat long after the sun has dipped low.

History in Galt is written in the slow reclamation of the land by the weather and the quiet persistence of those who remain to tend it. The economy remains rooted in the deep productivity of the surrounding acreage, a legacy of the agricultural ambition that first brought people to these plains. Ten miles away, the Locust Creek Conservation Area preserves a fragment of the wilder, unplowed character that once defined the entire region, standing in stark contrast to the ordered symmetry of the nearby crops. Travelers who find themselves five miles from the stillness of Curtis Upper Lake might notice how the silence here is not empty, but heavy with the weight of long, uninterrupted years of labor and the steady, plain-spoken rhythm of a life governed by the changing seasons.

About This Galt Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Galt, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.128627, -93.386881. 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 Galt includes the ZIP code (64641), telephone area code (816), county seat of Grundy County (Trenton), and school district assignment (Grundy County R-V 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.