Oakwood Missouri Map

About Oakwood, Missouri

Oakwood is a locality in Clay County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 198. The population density is 388.1 people per km². Oakwood is located at 39.2005°N, 94.5705°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Oakwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 63401, 64118.

Oakwood occupies a quiet expanse of land where the persistent, low-slung course of Mill Creek defines the local horizon. It lies 1.6 miles southwest of Jennings, MO (from Jennings, MO: bearing 230°T), and is situated 7.0 miles northwest of St. Louis. The earth here holds a heavy, dark moisture, giving way to the sprawling greenery of Flora Park, which serves as the primary tether for the neighborhood’s open space. To the west, the distant profile of Badger Ridge rises against the sky like a serrated blade, while the local light at dusk often turns the fields a bruised, deep violet. A mile away, the surface of Zajic Lake remains still, acting as a glass that catches the shifting clouds before they drift toward the distant, unseen dip of French Bottom.

Generations have measured the passage of time in Oakwood by the seasonal rhythms of the soil and the steady, unpretentious labor that keeps the local economy anchored to the surrounding plains. The town maintains a plain-spoken character, forged by the practical demands of its early settlers who favored the fertile, stubborn dirt over the uncertain promises of the frontier. Life moves with a deliberate pace, punctuated by the hum of machinery and the quiet maintenance of properties that have stood through decades of Missouri summers. There is a particular clarity in the air here, a sharpness that suggests a place unconcerned with the noise of the outside world, focusing instead on the honest work of the day and the long shadows cast by the trees as the sun retreats behind the western rise.

About This Oakwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oakwood, Missouri. Coordinates: 39.20049, -94.570504. 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 Oakwood includes the ZIP code (63401, 64118), telephone area code (314, 816), county seat of Clay County (Liberty), and school district assignment (North Kansas City 74 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.