Category: Missouri

A new aerial map of Affton in St. Louis County, Missouri, with thousands of red buildings along Gravois Road, Watson Road and Mackenzie Road. Affton takes its name from Johann George Aff, a farmer and merchant who came to St. Louis in 1858.

A new aerial map of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, made in 2026. Find Merchant Street, South Main Street and Saint Jude Acres. Learn how a priest in 1764 said the village had started 15 years before.

Mountain Grove was first called Fyan. This 2026 map of the Wright County town shows North Main Street, Mountain Grove City Hall, Randel-Hinkle Municipal Golf Course and the green hills all around it.

A new aerial map of Hollister in Taney County, Missouri. See the green hills, the winding river and the streets around Hollister City Hall, plus the story of how a Missouri Pacific railroad official gave the town its name.

Explore Doniphan’s streets, red buildings, and green hills on a new map with a vintage feel. Court House Square connects the view to the town’s story as Ripley County’s seat of justice.

Explore Clarksville’s riverfront streets and green hills on a new map with a vintage feel. Learn about the 1887 bicycle race that brought world championship riders to town.

Silex began when the railroad came through and George P. Smith moved his store from Cave City. This 2026 map of Silex, Missouri shows Main Street, Cuivre Street, the rolling hills around town and red building shapes you can zoom in on.

Mercer, Missouri, is a town of 263 people in Mercer County. This new 2026 aerial map shows Main Street, Bison Street, Green Cow Trail and more than 300 buildings drawn in red, set among green rolling hills.

Luray is a small Clark County village with a tight grid of streets. This 2026 aerial map shows Main Street, Washington Street and the farm country that an 1887 history said made Luray a shipping point on the Keokuk & Western Railroad.

Hunnewell sits in Shelby County, Missouri, on a neat grid of streets named for trees. This new 2026 aerial map shows Birch, Maple, Walnut and Center Streets, and it tells the story of the town’s big public meeting in April 1861.

New Madrid gave its name to the great earthquakes of 1811 and 1812. This new 2026 aerial map shows the town today, from Main Street and Kingshighway to Levee Road and the wide river bend below town.

A modern aerial map of Granger in Scotland County, Missouri, with Main Street, Johnson Street, Evans Street and the farm fields around them. An 1887 county history placed Granger on the Keokuk & Western Railroad.

A new aerial map of Deepwater in Henry County, Missouri, made in 2026. Find the numbered streets from First to Eighth, Grove Street and Sherwood Avenue, and read how the first settlers came to Deepwater Creek in 1835.

A new aerial view map of Cowgill in Caldwell County, Missouri. Find Main Street, Van Trump Avenue and the numbered streets, and read what a 1923 county history said about the town’s First National Bank.

A new aerial view map of Branson in Taney County, Missouri. Green hills, a winding blue river and more than 10,000 red buildings, from Table Rock to West Main Street. The town’s name goes back to its first postmaster in 1881.

Blackburn was laid out on Quality ridge in 1879, when the railroad came through Saline County. This new aerial map shows Main Street, Rea Street, Highway 20 and the red roofs of the town.

A modern aerial map of Unionville in Putnam County, Missouri, with a vintage look. Find Main Street, Grant Street, the old square and more than a dozen named streets, plus the story of the Unionville Square Historic District.

A new aerial-style map of Shelbina, Missouri, made in 2026. Find Center Street, Maple Street and Shelbina Cemetery, and read how the town came through Bill Anderson’s raid and started the county’s first paper after the Civil War.

A new aerial map of Princeton, Missouri, made in 2026. Find Grant Street, Main Street and Highway 136, and read how Princeton was once farther from a railroad than any other town in Northern Missouri.

A new aerial map of Paris in Monroe County, Missouri. Find Main Street, East Monroe Street and the Paris Male Academy, plus the winding river, the rail line and more than 900 buildings.

Callao, Missouri, from above: a new 2026 map of Chestnut Street, Second Street and Locust Grove Cemetery in Macon County, plus the story of Aunt Polly Baskett, whose birthday the town kept like a holiday.

Bethany had the first post office in Harrison County, opened in 1845 and called Bethpage for several years. This new 2026 aerial map shows Main Street, South 25th Street, Bulldog Avenue and the hills around town.

A new aerial map of Meadville in Linn County, Missouri, made in 2026. See Macon Street, Crandall Street and the blocks around them, and read how Meadville hosted the first meeting about draining the valley in July 1911.

A modern aerial map of Marshall in Saline County, Missouri, with a vintage feel. Find your street, from Lexington Avenue to South Odell Avenue, and read how Marshall went without a newspaper during the Civil War until the Progress started in 1866.

A new aerial map of Jefferson City in Cole County, Missouri, made in 2026. Find Missouri Boulevard, East High Street, the Katy Trail and thousands of buildings, plus the old story of where the city’s name came from.

A modern aerial map of Independence in Jackson County, Missouri, with a vintage feel. Find North Delaware Street, home of the Harry S Truman National Historic Site, plus Englewood, Fairmount, Mount Washington and thousands of homes.

A new aerial map of Grandin in Carter County, Missouri. About 1885, one of the state’s largest lumber mills started here. Find Cherry Street, Sixth Street and the old homes of the Sixth Street Historic District.

A modern aerial map of Florissant in St. Louis County, Missouri, with a vintage feel. Find Rue Saint Denis, Koch Park and Florissant City Hall, and learn why the town was once called San Fernando.

An aerial view map of Ferguson in St. Louis County, Missouri, made in 2026. Find Church Street, Ferguson City Hall, Jeske Park and thousands of red buildings, plus the story of a town with a post office since 1876.

Follow Main Street from Parkville City Hall down to the river, then read what an 1885 county history said about the town’s founder and a farmer’s ox wagon trip to mill.

Find Cuba’s streets in a modern aerial map with a vintage feel, then read the local story linking the town’s name to two travelers and an island stop.

See Columbia’s streets, red buildings and green hills in a new aerial map. Find East Broadway and Cosmo Park, then learn about the first church at Sixth and Walnut.

Find familiar Clayton streets, Shaw Park, and City Hall on a new aerial map. Learn how Ralph Clayton’s gift of 100 acres gave the town its name.

Explore Chesterfield’s streets, green hills, and broad blue river in a new map with a vintage feel. Learn how the town gave Chesterfield potatoes their name.

Find familiar Bridgeton streets in a modern aerial view with a vintage feel. See red buildings, green terrain, and blue water, and read about the town survey traced to St. Germain in 1786.

See Boonville’s streets, red buildings, and green hills beside a broad blue river. This new map pairs a modern aerial view with a vintage feel.

See Arrow Rock’s streets, red buildings, and green slopes in a new aerial map. Learn about the town’s first name, Philadelphia, from its founding in 1829.

Explore Laclede’s streets, red buildings, and green fields on a new aerial map. Find Worlow Street and read about General John J. Pershing’s boyhood home.

Find familiar Bolivar streets, Dunnegan Park and the fields around town in this new aerial map. An early banker’s account recalls a 150-mile grain haul from Polk County.

Find familiar Carthage streets in a modern aerial view with a vintage feel. Red buildings and blue waterways frame a local story about a printing press put to work after the battle of Carthage.

Wheeling, Missouri, in Livingston County, seen from above on a new 2026 map. Find Market Street, State Street and Wheeling City Park, and read how the town’s school began in a small log building in 1859 and 1860.

See Shelbyville’s streets, red buildings and blue lake in a new aerial map. Learn how its first county court term met at Abraham Vandiver’s house in 1836.

Explore Ridgeway’s streets in a new aerial map with a vintage feel, and meet the railroad town that had two banks and a hotel in 1921.

Explore Polo’s familiar streets in a new aerial map with a vintage feel. See Main Street, Polo City Hall and the blocks of a town once described as Grant township’s only village.

See Pickering’s streets and red buildings amid green fields. Learn how Josiah Coleman named the town for Pickering Clark, a man who worked for the railroad.

A modern aerial view of Newark in Knox County, Missouri, with a vintage feel. Find Fresh Street, Main Street, State Highway KK and your own block, plus the story of the county’s first Methodist classes, formed near Newark in 1835.

A 2026 aerial-style map of Pattonsburg in Daviess County, Missouri. Find Oak Street, Main Street, Central Avenue, Panther Drive and your own block, and read how Meredith Morris of Pattonsburg rose from first lieutenant to captain of a Union company in 1863.

Follow Mill Street, Market Street and Spring Street through Newtonia, Missouri, then learn how Mathew Ritchey’s stone house, barn and fences made this crossroads town a prize in the Civil War.

Maysville, Missouri’s map names West Main Street, South Polk Street and Oak Lawn Cemetery, and tells how DeKalb County’s first court met in a log house in 1845.

Montrose, Missouri was platted for the railroad in 1870, and Germantown’s business houses soon moved four miles to join it. This new map shows the numbered streets, the avenues named for states and each building drawn in red.

Follow Bagnell Dam Boulevard past the Scenic Overlook and across the water at Lakeside in Miller County, Missouri. Union Electric Road runs down the east side of this new aerial map.

Find Chillicothe City Hall, North Washington Street and Simpson Park, read about Grace Episcopal Church on Elm Street, and learn how Livingston County’s first courthouse was begun here in October 1837.

See King Street, the Track Streets and Chadwick Street on this new map of Brashear, Missouri, and learn how a Paulville church building was moved here after the town was laid out.

Follow Broadway Street through Breckenridge in Caldwell County to Rose Hill Cemetery, and read about the old millstone a county history says was brought to the city park.

A rail line was the direct cause of Braymer’s founding, a 1923 county history says. This 2026 map shows Main Street, Railroad Street and nearly 700 buildings, plus the story of the town’s first office and first school.

Belton City Hall and North Avenue are named on this 2026 map of Belton, Missouri. Then learn how the town was laid out in 1871 and what a 1917 county history says about its first bank.

Follow Bolckow’s streets from Clark Street up to Seventh Street, find Railroad Boulevard, and learn why freight sat on the ground when trains first came to town in 1870.

Gower’s first town board met on June 21, 1873, and a settler’s tent once stood where the town is now. Find Hallar Avenue, Gower City Park and the numbered streets on this new map of Gower, Missouri.

Follow Ward Street and Tarkio Street across Craig, Missouri, then learn about the Sharp brothers who settled Sharp’s Grove in 1841 and the flood the town came back from.

Follow Main Street across this Fairfax, Missouri map, then learn how the town grew out of a cornfield in 1881 and who bought its first business lot.

Calhoun was Henry County’s leading business town by the fall of 1837. This new map shows its grid of numbered streets, Main Street and more than 260 buildings, plus the story of its first stores and hand potteries.

See the village of Cosby, Missouri, from Main Street to Leidy Street, set in the green hills of Andrew County. Read about church groups in and southeast of Cosby in the 1888 county history.

Explore Broadway through downtown Brunswick in Chariton County, then look north to Herring Park. An 1883 county history describes the town as a Missouri River market and shipping point in the tobacco years.

Follow South Broadway and Weber Avenue across a new map of Salisbury in Chariton County, Missouri. Then learn about Mount Nebo, the Baptists’ pioneer church west of town, and the 1830 tornado.

Follow Davis Street through Hamilton, Missouri on this 2026 map. Learn how a town company trustee built Hamilton’s first house in 1856, and read about the National Register residence at 211 East Samuel Street.

Trace King City’s printed streets from Connecticut and Vermont to Empire Avenue, and read about the Opera Hall Block and a 1922 county history’s account of the Commercial Club and Presbyterian church.

Follow East Buffalo Street and South Bolivar Road through Humansville in Polk County, then learn what an 1889 county history said about the town’s rail stop, its school and its churches.

Follow Commercial Street and Grand Avenue through Forest City, Missouri, find Forest City Cemetery in the hills, and learn about the town’s first hotel and first school from an 1882 county history.

Follow North First Street through Edina, find Milltown and Linville Cemetery, and learn how Knox County’s first circuit court met here on October 1, 1845.

Follow Main Street across this 2026 map of Cassville in Barry County, Missouri, then read about the Cassville and Exeter Railway, which the local paper called the town’s “claim to glory.”

Follow Old Highway 21 into Pilot Knob, Missouri, past McCune Street and English Town. Then read how 1,447 Union defenders faced a much larger army at Fort Davidson on September 27, 1864.

Follow Main Street and Fifth Street across this Monroe City, Missouri map, find Lion’s Field Park and the lake to the west, and read what an 1876 history said about the town’s early days.

Trace Lexington, Missouri from Main Street and City Park south past Machpelah Cemetery. Then read about a blacksmith who worked in town from 1835 to 1868, and the old houses on Aull Lane.

Follow Main Street across this Maryville, Missouri map from the post office to the Big Pump, and learn about the first mill in Nodaway County, built by a settler named Cox in 1840.

Follow Jefferson Street and East Sixth Street across this 2026 map of Kearney in Clay County, then find where the James Brothers’ House and Farm sits in the hills east of town.

Follow Kirksville’s streets from City Hall to North Park and Maple Hill Cemetery. See where the Courthouse Square and the newly listed Princess Theatre stand, and learn what an 1888 history found in the hills southwest of town.

Follow Oak Street from Junior Long Field down to Bucklin City Hall and out Livingston Street, then read the town firsts from a 1912 Linn County history, back to the first boy born in Bucklin in 1855.

Follow Grand Avenue and Water Street across this 2026 map of Greenfield in Dade County, Missouri, then read how miners hit a 50,000-pound lead boulder northeast of town in 1875.

Follow South Main Street from Brookfield City Hall to Rosehill Cemetery, then read how a 1912 history described the marble Civil War soldier that watched over the town’s main street.

Follow North Main Street to the Gallatin square on this 2026 map. Learn how Mill Port’s merchants moved in, and how rebels once watched a Union camp from the courthouse cupola.

Follow Morley Street through Moberly, Missouri, from City Hall to Urbandale. Then learn how Moberly’s Black teachers brought the first federal case to directly challenge the firings of Black school staff after Brown.

Follow First Street and Randolph Street across this Glasgow, Missouri map, find the National Register church and library at Fourth Street, and read about the old resident who went out to General Clark during the Battle at Glasgow.

Follow Mansion Street and Georgia Street across this Louisiana, Missouri map, find ten National Register places, and learn why an 1883 county history says the name never came from some mythical Louise.

Follow Main Street and East Tenth Street across this Trenton, Missouri map, find six National Register places, and learn how the town raised 40,000 dollars for another railroad in 1880.

Follow Marshall Street and North 71 Business Highway across a new map of Anderson, Missouri. Then meet James W. Tatum of Beaver valley and John Patterson, who gave Patterson Creek its name, from an 1897 county history.

Follow Amity, Missouri from Lowell Street down past Main Street to Maple Street and out to Southwest Frank Ross Road, on a new map of a DeKalb County town of 26 people, its green fields and its winding creeks.

Walk the small grid of Amoret, Missouri from Main Street and Broadway out to Washington and Monroe Streets, and read how the Amoret Beacon newspaper moved to town in the 1890s with the county’s youngest editor.

Follow West Broadway and Main Street through Alton, an Oregon County city of 707 people, then find Tucker Creek Road, Laurel Avenue and the green hills east of town on a new map of Alton, Missouri.

Follow Whitewater Street into Allenville, look for Front, Second and Third Streets, then take Old Rock Road out on this Cape Girardeau County map. About 80 red buildings, a winding stream south of town and the blocks of a village of 95 people.

Follow Main Street through Allendale, a Worth County village of 48 people, past Jackson Street and Rodeo Drive, then out to the Allendale Cemetery label and the steep, creek-cut hills to the northwest.

Follow Main Street through Alba, Missouri, past Quaker Street and the ball diamonds, and read how teacher Emma Frise ran a crowded Alba school with seventy pupils on the register.

Trace Agency, Missouri from Main Street up State Highway Ff to Robin, Oriole and Bluebird Drives, a neighborhood of streets named for birds, on a map of shaded Buchanan County hills.

Follow Main Street and the numbered streets across this Adrian, Missouri map, find the lake at Adrian City Park, and read how a company of Butler men founded Adrian in 1880, the year the railroad started running.

Start at Advance City Hall and follow Oak Street, Sturdivant Avenue and the side streets out to Westfield Park on this Advance, Missouri map. Flat fields, more than 800 red buildings and the streets of a Stoddard County town of 1,349 people.

Follow Main Street across this Altenburg, Missouri map, from Ridge Road on the west to Chipmonk Lane in the northeast hills, and find the street of the Concordia Log Cabin College, added to the National Register in 1978.

Find Second Street, Main Street and Reel Avenue on this map of Altamont in Daviess County, Missouri, and learn why the railroad town’s name means High Mountain.

Follow Alexandria’s streets from Main Street down to Tilford Street, find Pearl Street by the water, and learn about the ferry that ran in this Clark County town as early as 1832.

Follow North Hundley Street and West Clay Street across this Albany, Missouri map, and learn about the town’s first subscription school, taught in 1845 by a man named Boston.