Oak Ridge Missouri Map

About Oak Ridge, Missouri

Oak Ridge is a locality in Barry County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 237. The population density is 154.8 people per km². Oak Ridge is located at 37.4987°N, 89.7299°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Oak Ridge is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 63877, 65625, 64744.

Oak Ridge occupies a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of limestone and the slow, rhythmic reclamation of the earth by deep-rooted timber. It lies 32.2 miles west of Branson, MO (from Branson, MO: bearing 279°T), and is situated 4.9 miles east-northeast of Cassville. The topography here rises in muted swells, a land of heavy clay and sudden, sharp outcrops that catch the low amber light of late afternoon, casting long, bruised shadows across the fields. Beyond the immediate periphery, the dense, verdant canopy of Mark Twain National Forest stretches toward the horizon, its presence felt in the cool, damp air that settles into Sugarcamp Hollow each evening. Water moves with a deliberate, subterranean patience, feeding the modest flow of Fortune Branch, which carves a narrow, winding path through the soil, indifferent to the passage of seasons or the slow erosion of the banks.

Generations have measured the life of Oak Ridge by the harvest and the steady, unadorned labor of the soil, maintaining a connection to the land that eschews grandiosity for a stark, practical endurance. The economy remains tethered to the cycles of the earth, where the labor of the farmstead and the quiet industry of the local woodlots provide the primary pulse of the day. There is a distinct, plain-spoken character in the way the morning light hits the weathered siding of the older structures, a testament to a history built not on spectacle, but on the stubborn capacity to remain. While Brights Spring Knoll stands as a silent sentinel seven miles away, the daily rhythm of Oak Ridge is defined by the immediate: the sound of a truck engine idling in the crisp air, the scent of turned earth, and the persistent, quiet work of keeping a homestead whole.

About This Oak Ridge Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oak Ridge, Missouri. Coordinates: 37.498739, -89.729875. 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 Oak Ridge includes the ZIP code (63877, 65625, 64744), telephone area code (816), county seat of Barry County (Cassville), and school district assignment (Oak Ridge R-VI 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.