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Golden City Missouri Map

Explore Golden City, 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 Golden City, Missouri

How to Use This Golden City, Missouri Map

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

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	Golden City
State	Missouri (MO)
County	Barton County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	37.393105
Longitude	-94.09383
Population	656
Density	244.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	64748
Area Code	816
County Seat	Lamar
School District	Golden City R-III School District

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About Golden City, Missouri

Golden City is a locality in Barton County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 656. The population density is 244.7 people per km². Golden City is located at 37.3931°N, 94.0938°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Golden City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64748.

Golden City emerges from the expansive Missouri plains as a quiet intersection of horizon and soil, where the sky claims more territory than the land itself. It lies 19.1 miles northeast of Carthage, MO (from Carthage, MO: bearing 38°T), and is situated 12.3 miles southeast of Lamar. The North Fork Spring River meanders a mile away, its presence marked by a thinning of the tall grasses and a subtle shift in the damp, heavy scent of the earth. Beyond the immediate fields, the landscape flattens into a vast, unadorned grid, though the faint, jagged silhouette of Indian Ridge haunts the western skyline like a memory of harder ground. During the long, bruised purple of dusk, the light catches the metallic glint of silos and the persistent, low-slung architecture of the prairie, grounding the senses in a geography defined by gravity and the patient, slow turning of the seasons.

Golden City remains a place where the economy is written in the language of furrowed rows and the steady, mechanical pulse of regional agriculture. The legacy of the land is preserved in the nearby Horse Creek Prairie Conservation Area, where the native grasses persist as they might have before the arrival of the rail lines that first gave the settlement its name. Life here avoids the frantic tempo of the distant cities, favoring instead the predictable cadence of the harvest and the solitary, reflective stillness found near the banks of Poirot Farms Lake. There is a particular, austere beauty in the way Golden City acknowledges its own isolation, keeping its history in the weathered siding of its buildings and the plain-spoken habits of those who call these plains home.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Horse Creek Prairie Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 081° E
Pa Sole Prairie Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.9 mi, 284° W
Stockton Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 13.0 mi, 062° NE
Stockton Lake (Recreation Area) — 14.0 mi, 062° NE
Fiddlers Ford Access (State Recreation Area) — 15.6 mi, 092° E
Red Oak 2 (Attraction) — 16.7 mi, 222° SW
Vietnamese Martyrs;Các Thánh Tử Đạo Việt Nam (Public Artwork) — 20.1 mi, 216° SW
Calvary Hill;Đồi Canvê (Monument) — 20.3 mi, 215° SW
Stockton State Park (State Park) — 22.3 mi, 054° NE
Samuel J. Butcher Museum (Museum) — 23.9 mi, 216° SW
Prairie State Park (State Park) — 24.0 mi, 289° W
Ozark Cavefish National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.5 mi, 121° SE · 82 acres
Spencer's Gas Station (Attraction) — 25.9 mi, 124° SE
Kneeling Miner Statue (Monument) — 26.8 mi, 229° SW
Praying Hands (Monument) — 26.9 mi, 230° SW
Mining Days Amphitheater (Theatre) — 26.9 mi, 229° SW
Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 30.6 mi, 229° SW
George Washington Carver National Monument (National Monument) — 31.1 mi, 207° SW · 241 acres
Schifferdecker home (Attraction) — 31.6 mi, 228° SW
Everett J. Ritchie Tri-State Mineral Museum (Museum) — 32.8 mi, 230° SW
National Historical Cookie Cutter Exhibit (Gallery) — 32.8 mi, 230° SW
Dorothea B. Hoover Historical Museum (Museum) — 32.8 mi, 230° SW
The house of Bonnie and Clyde (Attraction) — 33.1 mi, 225° SW
Opera House (Cinema) — 33.7 mi, 007° N
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.9 mi, 026° NE · 3,906 acres
Franklin Community Center & Heritage Museum (Museum) — 34.7 mi, 285° W
Miners Hall Museum (Museum) — 34.7 mi, 285° W
WWII ruin (Historic Ruins) — 40.9 mi, 201° S
Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 49.2 mi, 158° S · 1.5M acres
Piney Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 54.0 mi, 151° SE · 8,184 acres

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