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Missouri Physical Map

Missouri sits at the meeting of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers — the most consequential confluence on the continent.

Rendered from SRTM 30m elevation data + Natural Earth rivers/lakes + US Census state boundary. Four versions below, all free.

Highest Point

Taum Sauk Mountain

1,772 ft

Lowest Point

St. Francis River

230 ft

Missouri physical map showing the Ozark Mountains, the Mississippi/Missouri river system, and the northern glaciated plains, with major peaks and cities labeled. Topographic relief from NASA SRTM elevation data.

Choose your version

Two maps, two versions of each.

The same Missouri terrain as a classroom map and as wall art. All four are free PDFs.

Missouri physical map, labeled: the Ozark Mountains, the Mississippi/Missouri river system, and the northern glaciated plains, with the capital, cities and highest point marked
Labeled
Missouri blank physical map: the same terrain with no labels, for labeling practice
Blank
Physical map

Missouri physical map for the classroom

Elevation in color with shaded relief, plus the surrounding states and water for context. The labeled version marks the capital, major cities and the highest point. The blank version leaves them off so students can label the map themselves.

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Missouri relief wall art on a dark background
Dark
Missouri relief wall art on a light background
Light
Wall art

Missouri relief wall art

Missouri on its own, with strong shaded relief and no labels. The dark version has the most contrast. The light version uses far less ink on a home printer.

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The physical geography of Missouri

The Missouri River divides the state. North of it are rolling plains smoothed by glaciers. South of it is the Ozark Plateau, a region of hills, springs and deep valleys. The St. Francois Mountains, in the eastern Ozarks, are made of very old volcanic rock and include Taum Sauk Mountain, the highest point. The west has the Osage Plains. The southeast corner, called the Bootheel, is flat Mississippi floodplain and holds the lowest land in the state.

Major rivers

  • Missouri
  • Mississippi
  • Osage
  • Gasconade
  • Meramec
  • Current

Find it on the map

  • The Missouri River crossing the state to join the Mississippi near St. Louis
  • The winding Lake of the Ozarks
  • The flat Bootheel in the southeast
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Built from real data, not stock images.

Every Missouri physical map on this page was rendered from NASA SRTM 30-meter elevation data, with hydrography from Natural Earth and the shoreline-clipped state outline from the US Census Bureau. Each map is colored over that state’s own elevation range, and the relief shading is exaggerated so gentle terrain still shows.

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Missouri political map

The blank outline version of Missouri (state borders, no terrain). Useful for political-geography exercises.

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