Looks to be dead harmless corn snake

Thank you. Accident on my driveway

Eastern Milksnake, Lampropeltis triangulatum. A member of the lampropeltis kingsnake family, non venomous ophivorous species. Ophivorous meaning snake eater.

Thank you Mr. warrior

This is correct.

Around here, people would debate whether that's a great plains rat snake or a great plains king snake. Both exist, but the visible differences are minimal. If you google for images of them, you'll find some images in both searches that look like that snake.

My son kept one as a pet for a year or so. Then we released it. Then a year later I was idling along on the ATV and heard a rat start screaming. I jumped off the ATV and started looking through the grass. I found that snake wrapped around a rat. Apparently the ATV scared the rat, which ran past the snake. Fun times!

Heck with the snake. Pick up that arrowhead!

Rats have bigger longer heads and big eyes, bodies are loaf shaped and muscular.

Kings smaller less prominent head and smaller eyes, body round.

…. Down here everything that ain’t a copperhead, rattler, cottonmouth or coral is a chicken snake lol

Eastern milksnake.

I do miss fooling around with snakes... so many people to scare with them, so little time. No snakes to catch up here in AK.

I got bit a couple years ago by a milk snake about 3' long. Kinda felt like sandpaper, but left a toothline of bloody punctures. Painless. Had to peel his mouth off my hand. Beautiful snakes.

my wife had saw it first would have be chopped in really small chunks with her hoe.

Yeah, just chop it's tail off. About an inch behind it's head.

Would have guessed rat snake

Picked up a piece of firewood this afternoon and jerked my hand back. Just a harmless speckled king about 16" long

Had gloves on so would not have hurt me but snakes cause involuntary reactions in my body regardless of the type

And no I did not kill it, hope it eats a few copperheads or water moccasins

Bless you for this snake identification thread. State law in Missouri. God sorts them out

Aren't there only two types of snakes?
Dead ones and ones about to be dead?