Explore Steele, 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 Steele, 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 Steele.
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 | Steele |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Pemiscot County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 36.09479 |
| Longitude | -89.862102 |
| Population | 1,853 |
| Density | 330.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 63877 |
| Area Code | 816 |
| County Seat | Caruthersville |
| School District | South Pemiscot County R-V School District |
Steele occupies a flat, expansive reach of the bootheel where the horizon stretches thin and taut against the sky. It lies 16.4 miles southeast of Kennett, MO (from Kennett, MO: bearing 130°T), and is situated 11.9 miles north-northeast of Blytheville. The earth here is dark and heavy, a vast agricultural expanse that drinks the rain and yields to the steady, rhythmic labor of the plow. To the west, the subtle rise of Blow Ridge breaks the uniformity of the plains, offering a modest elevation that shifts the quality of light as the sun descends behind it. Water moves sluggishly through the landscape, channeled into the straight, purposeful lines of Ditch Number 5, which cuts through the fields like a vein in the silt. In the quiet hours before dusk, the air carries a singular, grounded stillness, as if the land itself is pausing to catch its breath beneath a wide, indifferent dome of pale violet.
Steele serves as a silent witness to the generations who have worked this soil, their history etched into the deep furrows of the cotton and soybean fields that define the local economy. The town grew from the necessity of the rail and the harvest, maintaining a character forged in the practical, plain-spoken resilience of those who endure the seasonal cycle of the earth. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the geography remains defined by the nearby Midway Crevasse and the quiet, stagnant waters of Half-Moon Lake, which hold the reflections of passing clouds in glassy silence. Those seeking the wilder edges of the terrain venture toward the Caruthersville Rookery Conservation Area, where the pulse of the local ecosystem remains undisturbed. Life in Steele moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, an existence defined by the arrival of the crop and the enduring, quiet solitude of the Missouri plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Steele, Missouri. Coordinates: 36.09479, -89.862102. 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 Steele includes the ZIP code (63877), telephone area code (816), county seat of Pemiscot County (Caruthersville), and school district assignment (South Pemiscot County R-V 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. |