Explore White Branch, 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 White Branch, 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 White Branch.
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 | White Branch |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Benton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.23447 |
| Longitude | -93.354648 |
| Population | 301 |
| Density | 233.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 65355 |
| Area Code | 573 |
| County Seat | Warsaw |
| School District | Warsaw R-IX School District |
White Branch defines the character of the landscape, carving a limestone-filtered path through the limestone bedrock of Scott Hollow. It lies 33.2 miles south-southwest of Sedalia, MO (from Sedalia, MO: bearing 192°T), and is situated 24.8 miles east-southeast of Clinton. The land here rises in slow, deliberate swells, where the deep green of oak and hickory canopy hides the jagged cuts of the terrain. To the west, the expansive waters of Lake of the Ozarks catch the low, heavy light of a late autumn afternoon, turning the surface into a sheet of hammered pewter. Six miles to the east, the rounded crest of Mockingbird Hill marks the horizon, a constant, silent presence against the bruised purple of the twilight sky. The air in White Branch holds a persistent, cooling dampness that rises from the riverbed, carrying the scent of drying leaves and wet shale, grounding the senses in the quiet gravity of the Missouri interior.
Settlers arrived in White Branch with a resolve forged in the hard, unyielding soil, establishing an economy long tethered to the timber trade and the modest yields of limestone quarrying. Today, the pace remains dictated by the seasonal shifts of the forest and the steady, quiet maintenance of the land that sustains those who remain. Residents often gather in the open clearings of Rotary Park, where the deliberate maintenance of the grounds offers a communal space that contrasts with the wild, unruly growth of the surrounding hollows. There is a singular, plain-spoken resilience in the way the local shops shutter their doors as the sun dips behind the western ridges, leaving the streets to the long, encroaching shadows. In White Branch, the history is not written in monuments but in the persistent, quiet labor of keeping a homestead against the slow reclamation of the woods.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of White Branch, Missouri. Coordinates: 38.23447, -93.354648. 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 White Branch includes the ZIP code (65355), telephone area code (573), county seat of Benton County (Warsaw), and school district assignment (Warsaw R-IX 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. |