Explore Queen City, 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 Queen City, 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 Queen City.
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 | Queen City |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Schuyler County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 40.409197 |
| Longitude | -92.567692 |
| Population | 562 |
| Density | 210.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 63561 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Lancaster |
| School District | Schuyler County R-I School District |
Queen City remains a quiet anchor amidst the expansive, undulating plains of northern Missouri, where the North Fork Salt River traces a slow, deliberate arc through the fields just beyond the village limits. It lies 14.8 miles north of Kirksville, MO (from Kirksville, MO: bearing 3°T), and is situated 27.6 miles southeast of Centerville. The horizon is defined by the distant, muted silhouette of White Oak Ridge, which rises four miles away to catch the amber light of late afternoon, casting long, thin shadows across the dormant winter cornfields. Two miles to the west, the surface of Public Water Supply District 1 L Reservoir sits perfectly still, a dark mirror reflecting the vast, open sky that dominates this stretch of the Midwest. The air here holds a crisp, earthen clarity, smelling faintly of turned soil and dry grass, a sensory reminder of the relentless, seasonal pulse that dictates the pace of life in this corner of the state.
Queen City grew from the steady, deliberate expansion of the railroad era, serving as a vital point of commerce for the agricultural bounty harvested from the surrounding fertile soils. Today, the local economy continues to draw its strength from these broad, productive acres, where the tradition of family farming persists despite the quiet modernization of the landscape. Residents looking for recreation often travel seven miles to navigate the Jones Spur, a path that winds through the quiet timberland near Lancaster (New City Lake), where the stillness of the woods offers a profound counterpoint to the busy machinery of the harvest season. The character of Queen City is forged in this plain-spoken endurance, a place where the social fabric is stitched together by the shared experience of the weather, the turn of the crop cycle, and the enduring presence of the land itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Queen City, Missouri. Coordinates: 40.409197, -92.567692. 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 Queen City includes the ZIP code (63561), telephone area code (816), county seat of Schuyler County (Lancaster), and school district assignment (Schuyler 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. |