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Prairie Home Missouri Map

Explore Prairie Home, 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.

Interactive Map of Prairie Home, Missouri

How to Use This Prairie Home, Missouri Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Prairie Home, 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 Prairie Home.

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	Prairie Home
State	Missouri (MO)
County	Cooper County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.813085
Longitude	-92.590467
Population	262
Density	260.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	65068
Area Code	573
County Seat	Boonville
School District	Prairie Home R-V School District

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About Prairie Home, Missouri

Prairie Home is a locality in Cooper County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 262. The population density is 260.7 people per km². Prairie Home is located at 38.8131°N, 92.5905°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Prairie Home is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 65068.

Prairie Home emerges from the expansive Missouri landscape as a quiet intersection of open fields and modest slopes, defined primarily by the steady, persistent presence of Pisgah Creek. It lies 16.8 miles southwest of Columbia, MO (from Columbia, MO: bearing 235°T), and is situated 13.8 miles southeast of Boonville. The water carves a shallow, deliberate path through the earth, drawing a thin line of green against the broader, sun-drenched palette of the surrounding plains. To the distant south, the rugged outline of Devils Backbone offers a faint, shadowed silhouette against the horizon, anchoring the sky while the closer, softer contours of the land invite a slower pace. The light here has a particular clarity in the late afternoon, striking the tall grasses and cultivated soil with a golden intensity that seems to suspend the day in a moment of amber stillness.

Agricultural cycles continue to govern the rhythm of life in Prairie Home, where the legacy of early homesteading remains etched into the very way the land is partitioned and worked. The economy remains tethered to the soil, reflecting a long-standing commitment to the harvest that has defined families here for generations. Residents find a quiet respite at the nearby Prairie Home Conservation Area, a space that preserves the wilder, uncultivated character of the region, while the deeper basin of Gooseberry Hollow remains a silent, topographical reminder of the ancient forces that shaped these plains. Even as the modern world hums along the edges of the horizon, Prairie Home maintains a grounded, deliberate character, its identity forged not by grand gestures, but by the patient, seasonal labor of those who tend its fields and follow the slow, winding course of its local waters.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Prairie Home Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.9 mi, 181° S
Big Muddy National Fish And Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.8 mi, 041° NE · 32k acres
Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 055° NE
Burr Oak (Attraction) — 9.0 mi, 049° NE
Missouri River Center (Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 038° NE
Katy Trail (State Park) — 9.4 mi, 031° NE
Schnabel Woods Natural Area (Nature Reserve) — 9.5 mi, 067° NE
Providence Access (State Recreation Area) — 10.0 mi, 081° E
Taylor's Landing Access (State Recreation Area) — 10.3 mi, 013° N
Boathenge (Attraction) — 11.0 mi, 088° E
Hooper Institute Historical Marker (Monument) — 11.1 mi, 201° S
Blue Star Memorial Highway (Monument) — 11.4 mi, 319° NW
Armed Forces Mural (Public Artwork) — 12.2 mi, 174° S
Fairground Gate (Monument) — 12.5 mi, 173° S
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 12.6 mi, 172° S
Rock Bridge Memorial State Park (State Park) — 13.8 mi, 073° E
Kemper Museum (Museum) — 14.0 mi, 324° NW
Old MKT Railroad Bridge (Attraction) — 14.3 mi, 322° NW
Harley Park Lookout (Viewpoint) — 14.4 mi, 320° NW
Access Arts (Arts Centre) — 16.4 mi, 046° NE
Jesse Auditorium (Theatre) — 16.8 mi, 057° NE
Museum of Anthropology (Museum) — 16.9 mi, 057° NE
Studio 4 Theater (Theatre) — 16.9 mi, 058° NE
Museum of Art & Archaeology (Museum) — 16.9 mi, 057° NE
Bingham Gallery (Gallery) — 16.9 mi, 057° NE
Courthouse Columns (Historic Ruins) — 17.1 mi, 056° NE
Ragtag Cinema (Cinema) — 17.1 mi, 056° NE
Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 20.4 mi, 114° SE · 1.5M acres
Cedar Creek Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 22.0 mi, 094° E · 42 acres
Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.7 mi, 332° NW · 22k acres

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