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Miston Tennessee Map

Explore Miston, Tennessee, 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.

Interactive Map of Miston, Tennessee

How to Use This Miston, Tennessee Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Miston, Tennessee. 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 Tennessee 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 Miston.

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.

CityMiston
StateTennessee (TN)
CountyDyer County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude36.164792
Longitude-89.490353
Population77
Density21.4 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code38080
Area Code901
County SeatDyersburg
School DistrictDyer County School District

About Miston, Tennessee

Miston is a locality in Dyer County, Tennessee, United States. It is a small community with a population of 77. The population density is 21.4 people per km². Miston is located at 36.1648°N, 89.4904°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 38080.

Miston occupies a flat stretch of land where the horizon pulls wide and low, defined by the heavy, fertile soil that has long dictated the rhythm of the day. It lies 10.7 miles north-northwest of Dyersburg, TN (from Dyersburg, TN: bearing 327°T), and is situated 9.4 miles east-southeast of Caruthersville. The light here has a way of thickening in the late afternoon, casting long, bruised shadows across the fields that extend toward the distant silhouette of Sheep Ridge. Just a mile away, the dark, slow-moving waters of Running Reelfoot Bayou carve a quiet path through the earth, while the landscape rises into the gentle, shadowed basin of Peck Hollow a few miles further out. To the north, the terrain gives way to the managed stillness of Tumbleweed Wildlife Management Area, where the grasses sway in unison with the passing wind. Moisture often hangs in the air near OFDBA Lake Site Number 60-6, lending a humid, verdant weight to the atmosphere that settles over the fields long after the sun has slipped beneath the tree line.

Miston functions as a place defined by the stubborn persistence of agriculture, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of planting and harvest. The history of the area is written in the furrows of the fields and the weathered wood of structures that have stood through decades of seasonal change. Life in Miston moves with a measured, deliberate pace, dictated by the demands of the soil and the quiet industry of those who work it. There is a particular stillness to the mornings here, a sense that the land is waiting for the work to begin, unbothered by the frantic pulse of larger, distant cities. The people here share an unspoken understanding of the seasons, finding a steady, grounded rhythm in a landscape that offers little in the way of spectacle, but everything in the way of permanence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Tumbleweed Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 313° NW
  • Bogota Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 148° SE
  • Lee Morris Memorial (Monument) — 4.2 mi, 122° SE
  • Lenox Bridge Memorial (Monument) — 5.1 mi, 149° SE
  • Lake Isom National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 8.5 mi, 026° NE · 3,626 acres
  • Burgess Chapel School (Historic Ruins) — 8.8 mi, 157° SE
  • Dyer County Historical Society (Museum) — 10.8 mi, 146° SE
  • Korean Conflict Memorial (Monument) — 10.8 mi, 148° SE
  • Reelfoot (State Park) — 13.4 mi, 016° N
  • Caboose (Attraction) — 14.6 mi, 005° N
  • Chickasaw National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 15.3 mi, 181° S · 43k acres
  • Cooter Auxillary Army Airfield (Historic Ruins) — 18.6 mi, 242° SW
  • Abraham Lincoln (Public Artwork) — 30.0 mi, 051° NE
  • The Fear Factory (Attraction) — 30.1 mi, 053° NE
  • Jones outdoor Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 31.9 mi, 278° W
  • Trenton Teapot Museum (Museum) — 33.3 mi, 113° SE
  • The Angry Axe (Attraction) — 36.3 mi, 070° E
  • Big Lake National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 37.6 mi, 244° SW · 2,280 acres
  • Red Devil Stadium (Stadium) — 39.9 mi, 055° NE
  • Malden Army Airfield Museum (Museum) — 40.9 mi, 317° NW
  • Billy Tripp's Mindfield (Attraction) — 41.4 mi, 162° S
  • Hemingway-Pfieffer Museum (Museum) — 42.4 mi, 291° W
  • Pfeiffer Museum (Museum) — 42.4 mi, 291° W
  • Bobby Ross Amphitheater (Theatre) — 45.7 mi, 112° E
  • Mark Twain National Forest (National Forest) — 64.0 mi, 316° NW · 1.5M acres
  • Shawnee National Forest (National Forest) — 70.1 mi, 003° N · 274k acres

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About This Miston Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Miston, Tennessee. Coordinates: 36.164792, -89.490353. 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 Miston includes the ZIP code (38080), telephone area code (901), county seat of Dyer County (Dyersburg), and school district assignment (Dyer County 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.