Matthews Missouri Map

About Matthews, Missouri

Matthews is a locality in New Madrid County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 534. The population density is 105.4 people per km². Matthews is located at 36.7568°N, 89.5675°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Matthews is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 63867.

Matthews emerges from the flat, alluvial expanse of the Bootheel, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered under a sky that feels vast enough to swallow the day. It lies 8.1 miles south of Sikeston, MO (from Sikeston, MO: bearing 180°T), and is situated 17.2 miles southwest of Charleston. The land here possesses a heavy, dark fertility, an insistent earth that demands the rhythm of the plow and the steady patience of the seasons. To the west, the subtle rise of Cane Ridge marks the distant edge of the landscape, a faint, hazy serration against the blue that serves as a quiet reminder of the shifting topography beyond the plains. Nearby, the quiet waters of Lake Saint Mary offer a glassy stillness that mirrors the changing color of the twilight, while the slow, deliberate drainage of Saint Johns Ditch carves a thin, functional line through the fields, guiding the runoff of a region defined by its reliance on the soil.

Agriculture remains the pulse of Matthews, dictating the tempo of the year through the planting of cotton and soybeans that blanket the surrounding acreage in alternating waves of green and gold. The legacy of this place is written in the furrows of the fields and the stoic, sun-bleached structures that dot the periphery, reflecting a history tied intimately to the yield of the Missouri earth. Locals often find their way toward the Swift Ditch Access for a moment of reprieve, where the intersection of water and land creates a sanctuary for the quiet observer. Life in Matthews maintains a plain-spoken, deliberate pace, where the significance of a harvest or the shifting humidity of an afternoon carries more weight than the clamor of the outside world, grounding its inhabitants in a reality that is as tangible and unadorned as the dirt beneath their boots.

About This Matthews Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Matthews, Missouri. Coordinates: 36.7568, -89.567477. 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 Matthews includes the ZIP code (63867), telephone area code (816), county seat of New Madrid County (New Madrid), and school district assignment (New Madrid 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.