Piedmont Missouri Map

About Piedmont, Missouri

Piedmont is a locality in Wayne County, Missouri, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,911. The population density is 512.3 people per km². Piedmont is located at 37.1545°N, 90.6957°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 63957.

Piedmont lies in a fold of southeastern Missouri’s Ozark foothills, where the land begins its patient descent toward the Mississippi Lowlands. It lies 65.6 miles west of Cape Girardeau, MO (from Cape Girardeau, MO: bearing 261°T), and is situated 16.2 miles east-south-east of Ellington. Here, the terrain is a study in rolling hills, cloaked in dense stands of oak and hickory, their branches interlacing to create canopies that filter the sunlight into shifting patterns on the forest floor. Creeks, clear and cool, snake through the valleys, their banks softened by ferns and moss, and the air carries the perpetual scent of damp earth and pine needles. In the late afternoon, as the sun dips low, a particular shade of amber light bathes the landscape, lending a quiet, almost somber beauty to the shadowed hollows and the distant, hazy blue of the ridges. The history of Piedmont is interwoven with the timber and mining industries that once shaped this corner of Wayne County. For generations, the forests provided lumber, their sturdy trunks yielding riches that built homes and fueled progress, while the earth itself offered up its mineral wealth. Though those boom times have largely receded, a sense of resilience and self-sufficiency persists among the residents, a quiet pride in their connection to the land. The local economy now leans more toward agriculture and small businesses, with a steady, unhurried pace of life that allows for the savoring of simple pleasures, like the evening call of a whippoorwill or the quiet contemplation of the stars against the vast, inky canvas of the Ozark night sky.

About This Piedmont Map Page

This page provides an interactive Google map of Piedmont, Missouri with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Piedmont and Wayne County.

Detailed location data for Piedmont includes the ZIP code (63957), telephone area code (816), county seat of Wayne County (Greenville), and school district assignment (Clearwater R-I School District). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Piedmont is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.