Explore Pickering, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pickering, 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 Pickering.
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.
| City | Pickering |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Nodaway County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.450823 |
| Longitude | -94.842192 |
| Population | 149 |
| Density | 340.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 64476 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Maryville |
| School District | North Nodaway County R-VI School District |
Pickering emerges from the wide, horizon-heavy expanse of the Missouri plains, where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 7.4 miles north-northeast of Maryville, MO (from Maryville, MO: bearing 12°T), and is situated 22.6 miles south-southeast of Clarinda. The landscape here is defined by the steady, rhythmic rise of the Pinhook Hills to the south, their silhouettes softening into the deeper shadows of Jack Hollow. Water shapes the character of the soil, with Harmon Creek carving a quiet path through the surrounding fields and the Nodaway County Community Lake offering a still, reflective glass that captures the amber light of late afternoon. Beyond the tilled acreage, the Nodaway County Conservation Land preserves a stretch of native prairie, where the tall grasses sway in a constant, restless conversation with the wind, grounding Pickering in the raw, unadorned beauty of the Midwest.
Agriculture dictates the pulse of life in Pickering, as the seasonal cycle of planting and harvest marks the passage of time more reliably than any clock. The economy remains tethered to the deep, fertile loam that has sustained local families for generations, a legacy of labor that persists in the quiet hum of machinery and the steady work of the fields. History here is kept not in grand monuments, but in the enduring grain silos that anchor the skyline and the plain-spoken endurance of those who tend the land. Life moves with an intentional, deliberate pace, shaped by the isolation of the plains and the shared knowledge of the seasons, leaving Pickering to exist as a sturdy, functional space where the primary focus remains the simple, necessary rhythm of the day’s work under an immense and ever-changing sky.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pickering, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.450823, -94.842192. 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 Pickering includes the ZIP code (64476), telephone area code (816), county seat of Nodaway County (Maryville), and school district assignment (North Nodaway County 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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |