Greencastle Missouri Map

About Greencastle, Missouri

Greencastle is a locality in Sullivan County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 332. The population density is 286.0 people per km². Greencastle is located at 40.2607°N, 92.8784°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 63544.

Greencastle occupies a quiet expanse of north Missouri where the terrestrial horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a vault of pale, expansive sky. It lies 16.2 miles west-northwest of Kirksville, MO (from Kirksville, MO: bearing 286°T), and is situated 32.7 miles south of Centerville. The land here is defined by a slow, deliberate cadence, characterized by fields of corn and soybean that trace the contours of the earth until they meet the low-slung, verdant edges of the Union Ridge Conservation Area. Just a mile away, the Mussel Fork carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the soil, its presence marked by the thick, dark stands of timber that follow its winding course. On clear evenings, the quality of light turns a bruised gold, casting long, sharp shadows across the stubble of harvested acreage while the distant silhouette of White Oak Ridge anchors the far western edge of the view like a faint, serrated seam in the fabric of the plains.

Greencastle bears the quiet marks of a history rooted in the grit of the nineteenth-century coal mining boom, a period that once drew laborers to the earth’s seams before the economy transitioned toward the steady, seasonal cycles of regional agriculture. Life remains tethered to the rhythms of the seasons, where the local pace is dictated by the planting and harvest rather than the frantic pulse of the urban centers to the south. Residents often look toward the Green City Large Reservoir for a moment of stillness, finding a peculiar beauty in the way the surface mirrors the passing clouds during the humid, midsummer afternoons. There is a singular, plain-spoken resilience here, a quality held by those who understand that the prosperity of the region is written in the topsoil and the endurance of the families who have watched the seasons turn over the same Missouri ground for generations.

About This Greencastle Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Greencastle, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.2607, -92.8784. 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 Greencastle includes the ZIP code (63544), telephone area code (816), county seat of Sullivan County (Milan), and school district assignment.

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.