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Morehouse Missouri Map

Explore Morehouse, 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 Morehouse, Missouri

How to Use This Morehouse, Missouri Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Morehouse, 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 Morehouse.

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.

CityMorehouse
StateMissouri (MO)
CountyNew Madrid County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude36.847275
Longitude-89.68536
Population741
Density355.8 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code63868
Area Code816
County SeatNew Madrid
School DistrictSikeston R-VI School District

About Morehouse, Missouri

Morehouse is a locality in New Madrid County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 741. The population density is 355.8 people per km². Morehouse is located at 36.8473°N, 89.6854°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Morehouse is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 63868.

Morehouse emerges from the flat, industrious expanse of the Missouri bootheel, where the earth stretches toward the horizon in a vast, uninterrupted quilt of dark, fertile soil. It lies 5.8 miles west-southwest of Sikeston, MO (from Sikeston, MO: bearing 249°T), and is situated 15.5 miles east-northeast of Dexter. The landscape here is defined by the steady, deliberate geometry of agricultural fields that drink deeply from the sun and the frequent, heavy rains of the region. Only a mile away, the Little River traces a quiet path through the terrain, its waters moving with a somber, brown gravity that mirrors the muted tones of the surrounding silt. On clear afternoons, the light settles over the rooftops of Morehouse with a golden, heavy clarity, turning the dusty lanes into corridors of amber and illuminating the distant, hazy silhouettes of trees that mark the boundaries of the nearby Clayton Park.

Agriculture serves as the pulse of Morehouse, dictating the seasonal cadence of life as tractors hum through the fields and the rhythm of the harvest defines the passage of months. The history of the locality remains tethered to the iron rails that once drew commerce into the heart of the plains, fueling a stubborn, plain-spoken resilience that persists in the face of changing markets. While the wider world shifts, the inhabitants of Morehouse maintain a steady focus on the land, their lives anchored by the quiet labor of the fields and the occasional excursion to the waters of Whites Lake to watch the stillness of the afternoon. It is a place where the grandeur of the sky commands more attention than any distant rise, and where the character of the people is as resilient and deep-rooted as the crops that rise from the earth each spring.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Sikeston Park Lincoln Memorial (Local Park) — 4.9 mi, 067° NE
  • Malco (Cinema) — 6.7 mi, 070° E
  • Sikeston Recreational Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.0 mi, 065° NE
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 7.2 mi, 061° NE
  • Swift Ditch Access (State Recreation Area) — 10.4 mi, 126° SE
  • Holly Ridge Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.0 mi, 271° W
  • General Watkins Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.0 mi, 012° N
  • Caboose (Attraction) — 15.6 mi, 256° W
  • Cotton Belt Caboose (Attraction) — 17.3 mi, 105° E
  • Veterans Wall of Honor (Monument) — 23.8 mi, 224° SW
  • Malden Army Airfield Museum (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 225° SW
  • Mingo National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.6 mi, 295° NW · 43k acres
  • HWY 51 Overlook (Viewpoint) — 26.0 mi, 291° W
  • Horseshoe Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area (Nature Reserve) — 26.8 mi, 048° NE
  • Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 27.2 mi, 033° NE · 274k acres
  • Mingo National Wildlife Refuge Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 28.0 mi, 287° W · 7,890 acres
  • Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 28.4 mi, 053° NE · 33k acres
  • (former Site) Terrace Inn (Historic Ruins) — 29.4 mi, 013° N
  • Desert Storm Memorial (Monument) — 29.8 mi, 068° E
  • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial (Monument) — 30.1 mi, 069° E
  • GEM Theatre (Cinema) — 30.5 mi, 070° E
  • Cairo River Wall Murals (Public Artwork) — 30.5 mi, 069° E
  • Reelfoot (State Park) — 31.5 mi, 143° SE
  • Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 31.7 mi, 275° W · 1.5M acres
  • Ceremonial Mound (Historic Ruins) — 33.8 mi, 075° E
  • Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center (Attraction) — 34.7 mi, 009° N
  • Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuge (Nature Reserve) — 40.4 mi, 159° S
  • Pfeiffer Museum (Museum) — 42.8 mi, 222° SW
  • Hemingway-Pfieffer Museum (Museum) — 42.8 mi, 222° SW
  • The Fear Factory (Attraction) — 45.4 mi, 130° SE

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About This Morehouse Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Morehouse, Missouri. Coordinates: 36.847275, -89.68536. 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 Morehouse includes the ZIP code (63868), telephone area code (816), county seat of New Madrid County (New Madrid), and school district assignment (Sikeston R-VI 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.