Russellville Missouri Map

About Russellville, Missouri

Russellville is a locality in Ray County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 778. The population density is 376.0 people per km². Russellville is located at 38.5128°N, 92.4385°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Russellville is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 63621, 64668, 65074.

Russellville occupies a quiet expanse of the Missouri interior, where the land stretches out in a series of modest, cultivated swells defined by the slow transition from open prairie to thickets of hardwood. It lies 21.7 miles east-northeast of Excelsior Springs, MO (from Excelsior Springs, MO: bearing 77°T), and is situated 11.8 miles northeast of Richmond. Sunlight here carries a particular, heavy clarity, turning the fields of late summer into a mosaic of pale ochre and deep, bruised green that seems to hold the warmth long after the sun has retreated. To the west, the subtle topography of the terrain finds its most distinct articulation in the distant rise of Yankee Ridge, a faint, serrated line against the horizon that anchors the vast sky. Nearby, the quiet course of West Fork Wakenda Creek carves a narrow, shaded artery through the soil, while the still, shadowed surface of Number 170 Reservoir waits five miles away, reflecting the passage of slow-moving clouds in its dark, glassy depths.

Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the local economy, with the rhythm of the seasons dictating the movement of heavy machinery and the quiet labor of the harvest. Families who have worked this dirt for generations maintain the steady, pragmatic pace of the Show-Me state, a philosophy that favors plain-spoken honesty and a deep, quiet connection to the land over outward display. Visitors seeking the stillness of the natural world often find their way to the Wagner (Frank E.) Conservation Area, where the native brush and timber offer a sanctuary for local wildlife and a reprieve from the grid of section roads. In Russellville, the days are measured not by the clock, but by the lengthening of shadows across the barn siding and the specific, cooling shift in the air that signals the coming of dusk across the open plains.

About This Russellville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Russellville, Missouri. Coordinates: 38.512762, -92.438506. 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 Russellville includes the ZIP code (63621, 64668, 65074), telephone area code (816, 573), county seat of Ray County (Richmond), and school district assignment (Cole County R-I 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.