Where to Find Jasper in Missouri
Missouri has 8 mapped collecting spots that report jasper, spread across 7 counties. The largest share sits in Daviess County with 2 spots. 8 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible.
Every jasper spot we track in Missouri
Best spotGallatinDaviess County, MissouriPublic access · Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper +2- Best spotLincolnBenton County, MissouriPublic access · Chalcedony, Chert, Mozarkite +2
- Best spotDaviess CountyDaviess County, MissouriPublic access · Lake Superior Agate, Jasper, Fossil +1
- Best spotGentry CountyGentry County, MissouriPublic access · Lake Superior Agate, Jasper, Fossil +1
- Best spotGrundy CountyGrundy County, MissouriPublic access · Lake Superior Agate, Jasper, Fossil +1
- Best spotLa GrangeLewis County, MissouriPublic access · Agate, Chalcedony, Jasper
Livingston CountyLivingston County, MissouriPublic access · Lake Superior Agate, Jasper, Fossil +1- ZionMadison County, MissouriPublic access · Jasper
Standout jasper spots in Missouri
Hand-picked from the full list above, with the reason each one earns a trip.
Lincoln
Benton County
Lincoln sits at the heart of the mozarkite country in Benton County, the source of Missouri's official state rock, a multicolored gem chert that weathers out of the Mississippian Burlington and Warsaw limestones.
Daviess County
Daviess County
Daviess County lies in the glaciated plains of northern Missouri, where Pleistocene ice sheets carried Lake Superior agates south from the Great Lakes basin and dropped them in glacial drift and stream gravels.
Gallatin
Daviess County
Gallatin sits on the Grand River in glaciated Daviess County, and the river gravels here are a documented source of petrified wood, agate, jasper, and chalcedony reworked from glacial drift.
Gentry County
Gentry County
Gentry County in far northwestern Missouri lies squarely in glacial-drift country, where ice-rafted Lake Superior agates, jasper, and petrified wood are scattered through till and reworked into the area's stream gravels.
Grundy County
Grundy County
Grundy County rounds out the cluster of glaciated northern Missouri counties that yield ice-transported Lake Superior agates, with mindat documenting Lake Superior agate from the county.
La Grange
Lewis County
The Mississippi River gravels around La Grange in Lewis County carry gem-quality agate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood, and the occasional Keokuk geode, all concentrated by the river and reworked glacial drift.
Best counties for jasper in Missouri
Ranked by the number of mapped jasper spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
Before you go
Read the jasper identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Jasper in the encyclopedia.
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