Neck City Missouri Map

About Neck City, Missouri

Neck City is a locality in Jasper County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 228. The population density is 224.0 people per km². Neck City is located at 37.2570°N, 94.4444°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Neck City is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 64849, 64755.

Neck City occupies a quiet expanse of the Missouri landscape where the North Fork Spring River carves a slow, deliberate path through the limestone-heavy earth. It lies 7.7 miles north of Webb City, MO (from Webb City, MO: bearing 8°T), and is situated 9.2 miles northwest of Carthage. The land here leans into the transition between the flatter plains of the north and the rugged, timbered rise of the Ozark hills to the south, creating a terrain of uneven fields and dense, tangled thickets. In the late afternoon, the light catches the silt-heavy water of the North Fork Spring River, turning it the color of hammered copper as it slips past dormant plots of land. Wild grasses grow tall against the rusted remnants of fences, and the air carries the dry, earthen scent of a region that has long since traded its industrial clamor for the steady, unobserved growth of saplings and brambles.

History lingers in the soil of Neck City, a place once defined by the deep, frantic excavations of the lead and zinc mining boom that drew men from distant lands to work the veins beneath the surface. The economy has shifted away from these mineral-rich depths, leaving behind a landscape marked by the subtle depressions of old shafts and the quiet persistence of those who remain. While the bustling infrastructure of more populated hubs feels a world away, the daily pulse of the region is measured by the passage of the sun across the wide, open sky and the occasional distant hum of a truck on a nearby road. Life here moves with a deliberate, singular gravity, untethered from the frantic pace of the larger world and anchored instead to the simple, enduring reality of the Missouri plains.

About This Neck City Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Neck City, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.257, -94.444394. 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 Neck City includes the ZIP code (64849, 64755), telephone area code (816), county seat of Jasper County (Carthage), and school district assignment (Webb City R-VII 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.