Where to Find Lake Superior Agate in Missouri
Missouri has 5 mapped collecting spots that report lake superior agate, spread across 5 counties. 5 of the spots are on land mapped as publicly accessible.
Every lake superior agate spot we track in Missouri
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
Livingston CountyLivingston County, MissouriPublic access · Lake Superior Agate, Jasper, Fossil +1
Old MonroeLincoln County, MissouriPublic access · Lake Superior Agate, Garnet, Staurolite
Standout lake superior agate spots in Missouri
Hand-picked from the full list above, with the reason each one earns a trip.
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.
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.
Best counties for lake superior agate in Missouri
Ranked by the number of mapped lake superior agate spots. County links open the full rockhounding page for that county.
- Daviess County1 spot
- Gentry County1 spot
- Grundy County1 spot
- Lincoln County1 spot
- Livingston County1 spot
Before you go
Read the lake superior agate identification guide so you know what a keeper looks like in the field: Lake Superior Agate in the encyclopedia.
