Lamar Heights Missouri Map
Explore Lamar Heights, 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 Lamar Heights, Missouri
How to Use This Lamar Heights, Missouri Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lamar Heights, 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 Lamar Heights.
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 | Lamar Heights |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Barton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.493659 |
| Longitude | -94.297726 |
| Population | 170 |
| Density | 83.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 64759 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Lamar |
| School District | Lamar R-I School District |
About Lamar Heights, Missouri
Lamar Heights is a locality in Barton County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 170. The population density is 83.8 people per km². Lamar Heights is located at 37.4937°N, 94.2977°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Lamar Heights is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64759.Lamar Heights rises from the prairie floor where the North Fork Spring River carves a deliberate, winding path through the limestone-rich soil of southwestern Missouri. It lies 21.9 miles north of Carthage, MO (from Carthage, MO: bearing 2°T), and is situated 1.2 miles west of Lamar. The landscape here favors open horizons and the steady, quiet transition between flat farmland and the subtle lift of the land toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Indian Ridge. Sunlight in Lamar Heights possesses a particular, heavy clarity, casting elongated shadows across the fields that seem to amplify the stillness of the afternoon. Only a short distance away, the surface of Lamar City Lake mirrors the vast, shifting clouds, providing a cool reprieve from the heat that radiates off the dry grasses during the peak of summer.
Agriculture and the steady pulse of regional commerce define the rhythm of life in Lamar Heights, where the labor of the soil remains an unspoken language shared by those who live close to the earth. Generations have organized their days around the seasonal cycles of the fields, maintaining a practical, plain-spoken economy that values resilience over pretense. Leisure finds its center at Lamar City Park, a space that serves as a communal anchor for afternoon gatherings and quiet reflection. While the expansive, forested seclusion of the Lester R Davis Memorial State Forest remains a short journey to the east, the character of Lamar Heights stays tethered to the industrious, grounded spirit of its own immediate geography.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Lamar City Park (Local Park) — 0.8 mi, 132° SE
- Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 1.9 mi, 085° E
- Wheeler Park (Local Park) — 2.2 mi, 084° E
- Treaty Line Prairie Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 110° E
- Mo-No-I Prairie Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 313° NW
- Pawhuska Prairie (Conservation Area) — 7.9 mi, 069° E
- Prairie State Park (State Park) — 11.6 mi, 274° W
- Red Oak 2 (Attraction) — 19.4 mi, 180° S
- Crawford Fishing Lake Number One (State Park) — 21.6 mi, 267° W
- Franklin Community Center & Heritage Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 275° W
- Miners Hall Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 275° W
- A Student's Life (Public Artwork) — 22.6 mi, 252° W
- Railroad Depot (Attraction) — 23.1 mi, 256° W
- Calvary Hill;Đồi Canvê (Monument) — 23.6 mi, 181° S
- Kneeling Miner Statue (Monument) — 26.0 mi, 200° S
- Praying Hands (Monument) — 26.1 mi, 201° S
- Mining Days Amphitheater (Theatre) — 26.2 mi, 200° S
- Samuel J. Butcher Museum (Museum) — 26.5 mi, 186° S
- Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 29.6 mi, 203° SW
- Opera House (Cinema) — 30.5 mi, 030° NE
- Schifferdecker home (Attraction) — 30.6 mi, 204° SW
- Everett J. Ritchie Tri-State Mineral Museum (Museum) — 31.3 mi, 206° SW
- National Historical Cookie Cutter Exhibit (Gallery) — 31.3 mi, 206° SW
- Dorothea B. Hoover Historical Museum (Museum) — 31.3 mi, 206° SW
- The house of Bonnie and Clyde (Attraction) — 32.8 mi, 202° S
- George Washington Carver National Monument (National Monument) — 34.8 mi, 185° S · 241 acres
- Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo (National Wildlife Refuge) — 35.0 mi, 047° NE · 3,906 acres
- Brush Creek Bridge (Viewpoint) — 37.9 mi, 220° SW
- Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 60.3 mi, 151° SE · 1.5M acres
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About This Lamar Heights Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lamar Heights, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.493659, -94.297726. 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 Lamar Heights includes the ZIP code (64759), telephone area code (816), county seat of Barton County (Lamar), and school district assignment (Lamar R-I School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
