Triplett Missouri Map

About Triplett, Missouri

Triplett is a locality in Chariton County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 33. The population density is 55.2 people per km². Triplett is located at 39.4981°N, 93.1938°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Triplett is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 65286.

Triplett endures as a quiet expanse of Chariton County, defined by the slow, deliberate work of the Missouri soil and the open sky. It lies 25.9 miles north of Marshall, MO (from Marshall, MO: bearing 0°T), and is situated 18.8 miles east-northeast of Carrollton. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar, heavy clarity, turning the surrounding farmland into a patchwork of deep ochre and green that shifts with the turning of the seasons. Salt Creek winds its way through the nearby landscape, a thin, persistent ribbon of water that anchors the low-lying terrain. Beyond the immediate fields, the horizon remains vast and unobstructed, save for the distant, faint silhouette of Shields Hill, which marks the edge of the observer’s reach. The air carries the scent of dry stalks and turned earth, a sensory map that changes little, even as the day fades into the bruised purples and grays of a prairie dusk.

Triplett functions as a legacy of the agrarian ambition that first broke this ground, where the economy remains tethered to the rhythms of planting and harvest. The local character is forged by this dependence on the land, echoing a plain-spoken resilience that predates the modern era. While Wiese (Helen K.) offers a sanctuary of uncultivated quiet four miles away, the daily life of Triplett is defined more by the steady maintenance of fences and the hum of machinery than by leisure. Residents occasionally look toward the Swan Lake National Wildlife Refuge Habitat Trail for a different perspective on the region’s ecology, or perhaps toward East Lake for a moment of stillness, yet the identity of the place rests firmly in its agricultural roots. Here, the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the visible growth of crops and the subtle, cyclical migrations of birds across the flat, wide horizon.

About This Triplett Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Triplett, Missouri. Coordinates: 39.49808, -93.193814. 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 Triplett includes the ZIP code (65286), telephone area code (573), county seat of Chariton County (Keytesville), and school district assignment (Northwestern 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.