Explore Powersville, 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 Powersville, 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 Powersville.
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 | Powersville |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Putnam County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.549176 |
| Longitude | -93.300214 |
| Population | 42 |
| Density | 28.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 64672 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Unionville |
| School District | Putnam County R-I School District |
Powersville defines itself through the quiet, expansive reach of the northern Missouri plains, where the horizon stretches wide and unencumbered by the abrupt verticality of distant ranges. It lies 45.0 miles west-northwest of Kirksville, MO (from Kirksville, MO: bearing 303°T), and is situated 25.7 miles west-southwest of Centerville. The terrain surrounding Powersville consists of modest, cultivated slopes and fertile soil that hold the morning light in a pale, amber glow, casting long shadows across fields that have been tilled for generations. A mile to the west, the slow, deliberate current of Buckworth Creek carves a path through the earth, its banks lined with the tangled, dark silhouettes of native hardwoods that break the monotony of the open prairie. During the humid shift of late summer, the air here carries a heavy, sweet scent of drying hay, a sensory mark of the land’s enduring connection to the rhythm of the seasons.
Powersville maintains a steady, internal pace, anchored by an agricultural heritage that remains the primary pulse of the local economy. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the Medicine Creek Wildlife Area offers a necessary sanctuary for local fauna, providing a contrast to the orderly, gridded lines of regional farmland. While the Seymour City Reservoir lies twelve miles away, its presence is felt in the wider geography of the region, serving as a silent, aquatic marker in an otherwise terrestrial landscape. Life in Powersville unfolds with the plain-spoken directness common to this part of the state, where the labor of the day is measured in the steady turning of equipment and the quiet gathering of neighbors as the dusk settles over the fields.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Powersville, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.549176, -93.300214. 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 Powersville includes the ZIP code (64672), telephone area code (816), county seat of Putnam County (Unionville), and school district assignment (Putnam County R-I 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. |