Pickering Missouri Map

About Pickering, Missouri

Pickering is a locality in Nodaway County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 149. The population density is 340.4 people per km². Pickering is located at 40.4508°N, 94.8422°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Pickering is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 64476.

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.

About This Pickering Map Page

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).

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.