Wood Heights Missouri Map
Wood Heights, Missouri — interactive Google street map, satellite and terrain views, Street View, live National Weather Service conditions and 7-day forecasts, real-time local and world news, and an editorial description of Wood Heights, Ray County.
Interactive Map of Wood Heights, Missouri
| City | Wood Heights |
| State | Missouri (MO) |
| County | Ray |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.339451 |
| Longitude | -94.162722 |
| Population | 784 |
| Density | 132.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
About Wood Heights, Missouri
Wood Heights is a locality in Ray County, Missouri, United States. It is a small community with a population of 784. The population density is 132.6 people per km². Wood Heights is located at 39.3395°N, 94.1627°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 64024.
Wood Heights unfolds across rolling terrain, a gentle swell and dip in the Missouri landscape where fields of corn and soybeans stretch towards horizons softened by distance. It lies 15.2 miles east-north-east of Liberty, MO (from Liberty, MO: bearing 65°T), and is situated 3.4 miles east of Excelsior Springs. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a faint, earthy sweetness, a blend of tilled soil and the distant breath of livestock. Oak and hickory trees, their branches reaching with a quiet stubbornness, punctuate the open spaces, offering slivers of shade that shift and lengthen as the sun descends. Roads, mostly gravel and a muted grey, wind through the undulations, leading past farmhouses whose paint, weathered by countless seasons, tells a silent story of endurance. This corner of Ray County, though unassuming, holds the quiet persistence of agrarian life, a history rooted in the fertile soil that has sustained generations of farmers. The local economy, as it has for decades, draws its lifeblood from the bounty of the land – crops that feed and livestock that are raised with a practiced hand. There are no grand monuments here, no bustling commercial centers, but a steady, unobtrusive character that speaks of a community built on hard work and the slow turning of seasons. Wood Heights remains a place where the rhythm of the day is still largely dictated by the needs of the farm and the fickle moods of the weather, a testament to a way of life that values continuity.
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About This Wood Heights Map Page
This page provides an interactive Google map of Wood Heights, Missouri with street, satellite and terrain views and integrated Street View imagery. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Wood Heights and Ray County. Coordinates and population data are also included.
Location data for Wood Heights is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity, not name matching alone — ensuring the correct Wood Heights is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states.
| Page generated | June 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. Location verified by proximity — not name matching alone. |
