Explore Stark 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 Stark 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 Stark 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 | Stark City |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Newton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.862289 |
| Longitude | -94.185769 |
| Population | 125 |
| Density | 148.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 64866 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Neosho |
| School District | East Newton County R-VI School District |
Stark City occupies a quiet stretch of land where the Weatherspoon Branch cuts a deliberate path through the earth, marking the terrain with its steady, unadorned flow. It lies 10.1 miles east of Neosho, MO (from Neosho, MO: bearing 93°T), and is situated 5.5 miles southeast of Granby. The landscape here unfolds in subtle gradients, characterized by fields that catch the low, amber light of late afternoon, casting long shadows toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Blue Clay Ridge. To the west, the land dips into the quietude of Shannon Hollow, where the air holds a cooler, damp weight and the trees grow thicker, untouched by the expansive, open sky that defines the broader horizon. Those who travel through Stark City often notice how the light settles over the pastureland, turning the dry grass to the color of weathered straw before the evening settles into a deep, indigo silence.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of Stark City, grounding the daily rhythm in the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that have long sustained the families rooted in this soil. While the local economy looks toward the fields, the nearby Smack-Out Access offers a point of entry into the wilder, wooded tracts that define the regional geography for those seeking the stillness of the timber. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own boundaries, far removed from the bustle of the larger urban centers that define the state’s northern and eastern edges. On quiet mornings, the proximity to the water at Bleuins Lake provides a subtle, shifting backdrop to the workaday world, reinforcing a sense of permanence in a landscape that values the plain-spoken reliability of its people.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Stark City, Missouri. Coordinates: 36.862289, -94.185769. 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 Stark City includes the ZIP code (64866), telephone area code (816), county seat of Newton County (Neosho), and school district assignment (East Newton County R-VI 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. |