Explore Middle Grove, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Middle Grove, 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 Middle Grove.
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 | Middle Grove |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Monroe County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.395038 |
| Longitude | -92.270456 |
| Population | 57 |
| Density | 39.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 65263 |
| Area Code | 573 |
| County Seat | Paris |
| School District | Middle Grove C-1 School District |
Middle Grove emerges from the quiet intersection of prairie soil and the persistent, low-slung banks of Milligan Creek. It lies 9.1 miles east of Moberly, MO (from Moberly, MO: bearing 100°T), and is situated 14.6 miles north-northwest of Centralia. The landscape here favors the long view, where the horizon stretches flat and wide, broken only by the occasional stand of hardwoods that catch the amber quality of the late afternoon sun. Beyond the immediate fields, the distant silhouette of Cedar Ridge marks the edge of the world, a faint, jagged charcoal line against the pale Missouri sky. Air in Middle Grove holds a particular weight, thick with the scent of turned earth and drying corn husks, cooling rapidly as dusk settles into the hollows near the water.
Middle Grove maintains an economy deeply anchored in the cycles of the harvest, a rhythm dictated by the demands of the soil and the seasonal shift of the plains. History here is marked by the quiet endurance of families who have worked these tracts for generations, their lives tied to the land in ways that defy the frantic pace of modern centers. Residents often look toward the Jacks (Maude Shores) Conservation Area for respite, valuing the stillness of the protected woods over the clamor of further horizons. Even the proximity of Johnson Lake offers only a modest, reflective surface for the sky, a place where the water mirrors the clouds rather than inviting spectacle, grounding Middle Grove in a sense of place that is entirely its own.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Middle Grove, Missouri. Coordinates: 39.395038, -92.270456. 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 Middle Grove includes the ZIP code (65263), telephone area code (573), county seat of Monroe County (Paris), and school district assignment (Middle Grove C-1 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. |