Lockwood Missouri Map

About Lockwood, Missouri

Lockwood is a locality in Dade County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 846. The population density is 336.4 people per km². Lockwood is located at 37.3856°N, 93.9533°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Lockwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 65682.

Lockwood occupies a stretch of high, open prairie where the horizon widens to accommodate the vast, shifting colors of the Midwestern sky. It lies 24.4 miles northeast of Carthage, MO (from Carthage, MO: bearing 54°T), and is situated 19.3 miles east-southeast of Lamar. The landscape here favors the subtle, persistent incline of the plains, broken occasionally by the quiet descent into Glass Hollow or the steady, rhythmic flow of Horse Creek as it tracks through the tallgrass. In the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised gold, catching the edges of the Horse Creek Prairie Conservation Area and casting long, thin shadows that stretch across the fields until they lose themselves in the distance. Even when the air grows thin and sharp, the land retains a quiet, stoic weight, far removed from the serrated silhouette of Indian Ridge that haunts the far edge of the imagination.

Lockwood carries the quiet inheritance of its founders, whose labor carved a living from the stubborn, fertile soil of the Missouri plains. Agriculture remains the steady pulse of the local economy, defined by the seasonal turning of fields and the patient work of those who know the temperament of the earth. The rhythm of daily life is measured not by the clock, but by the slow, deliberate work of the harvest and the maintenance of the homesteads that dot the periphery. While the proximity of Stockton Lake offers a reprieve of deep, still water for the curious traveler, the true character of Lockwood resides in the plain-spoken endurance of its people, who remain as anchored to this patch of ground as the native grasses that once claimed the entire expanse.

About This Lockwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lockwood, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.385604, -93.95327. 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 Lockwood includes the ZIP code (65682), telephone area code (417), county seat of Dade County (Greenfield), and school district assignment (Lockwood 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.