Phelps City Missouri Map

About Phelps City, Missouri

Phelps City is a locality in Atchison County, Missouri, United States. The population density is 12.0 people per km². Phelps City is located at 40.4033°N, 95.5986°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 64482.

Phelps City emerges from the expansive, level horizons of the Missouri bottomlands as a quiet expanse of agricultural stillness. It lies 38.4 miles west of Maryville, MO (from Maryville, MO: bearing 276°T), and is situated 12.7 miles east of Auburn. The land here holds the light of late afternoon in a thin, golden suspension, casting long shadows across the fields that stretch toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Pigeon Ridge. Only a mile away, the Old Channel Nishnabotna River carves a sluggish, sinuous path through the silt, its presence marked by the thick, dark stands of timber that break the monotony of the open prairie. To the west, the topography softens into the subtle depressions of Happy Hollow, where the air grows cooler and the soil turns heavy with the moisture held by the earth long after the rains have ceased.

Phelps City remains a place defined by the slow, deliberate work of the harvest and the deep, silent cycles of the seasons. The local economy persists as a quiet reflection of the surrounding soil, where the labor of the farmstead dictates the rhythm of the days and the quiet maintenance of the homesteads. Residents often look toward the Brownville State Recreation Area for a reprieve from the labor of the fields, or find a sense of solitude by the quiet waters of Charity Lake, five miles to the east. History here is not written in grand monuments, but in the enduring, plain-spoken persistence of families who have worked this ground for generations, watching the seasons turn against a backdrop of endless sky and fertile, unyielding dirt.

About This Phelps City Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Phelps City, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.403335, -95.598599. 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 Phelps City includes the ZIP code (64482), telephone area code (816), county seat of Atchison County (Rock Port), and school district assignment (Rock Port R-II 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.