Harwood Missouri Map

About Harwood, Missouri

Harwood is a locality in Vernon County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 29. The population density is 106.6 people per km². Harwood is located at 37.9561°N, 94.1544°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Harwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64750.

Harwood emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the Missouri plains, defined by the persistent, winding path of McKenzie Creek as it cuts through the local silt and clay. It lies 47.0 miles west-northwest of Bolivar, MO (from Bolivar, MO: bearing 300°T), and is situated 9.1 miles northwest of El Dorado Springs. The landscape here favors the horizontal over the vertical, where the sky claims more territory than the land itself, and the golden, late-afternoon light stretches shadows long across the dormant fields. In the distance, the Philbrick Hills provide a faint, serrated edge against the western sky, while the nearby Schell-Osage Conservation Area offers a vast reach of managed wetlands and tall grasses that mirror the quiet solitude of the surrounding earth. Just a short distance away, the surface of Floyd Hines Lake remains undisturbed, reflecting the shifting colors of the prairie clouds with a clarity that feels ancient and indifferent to the passage of a single day.

Harwood maintains a rhythm dictated by the cycles of the harvest and the seasonal demands of agriculture, which remain the primary pulse of the local economy. The history of the region is etched into the grid of rural roads and the sturdy, weathered architecture of the local grain infrastructure, standing as silent witnesses to the generations who have worked this soil. To the south, the terrain dips toward the gentle depression of Pecan Hollow, a quiet reminder of the slow, geological persistence that shaped the foundations of the community. Life in Harwood moves with a deliberate, plain-spoken gravity, where the identity of the place is not found in grand displays, but in the enduring continuity of a landscape that demands patience and rewards those who observe the subtle, shifting textures of the changing seasons.

About This Harwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Harwood, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.956145, -94.15439. 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 Harwood includes the ZIP code (64750), telephone area code (816), county seat of Vernon County (Nevada), and school district assignment (Northeast Vernon County R-I 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.