Albert Kansas Map

About Albert, Kansas

Albert is a locality in Barton County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 132. The population density is 216.9 people per km². Albert is located at 38.4528°N, 99.0115°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Albert is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67511.

Albert sits amidst a vast expanse of high plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pulling the sky down to meet the wheat in a seamless, golden circumference. It lies 14.7 miles west-northwest of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 295°T), and is situated 19.4 miles north-northeast of Larned. Walnut Creek carves a shallow, verdant ribbon through this flat terrain, its banks lined with the gnarled, silver-barked cottonwoods that offer the only vertical relief from the relentless, sweeping wind. During the long, bruised afternoons of summer, the light turns a hard, crystalline amber, illuminating the dust motes that hang suspended in the stillness. To the west, the land remains largely unbroken by significant elevation, though the faint, jagged silhouette of Jenkins Hill occasionally teeters on the edge of visibility when the atmosphere clears after a storm.

Albert emerged from the turn-of-the-century expansion of the railroad, serving as a quiet node for the shipment of grain that defines the regional economy. The rhythm of daily life here remains tethered to the harvest, a cycle of planting and reaping that has persisted through cycles of drought and bounty, grounding the inhabitants in a pragmatic, unadorned existence. While the local landscape is largely defined by the quiet labor of the fields, those seeking a brief reprieve from the open expanse occasionally travel toward Barton Lake or the paths of Veterans Memorial Park to find a different scale of solitude. The architecture of the remaining structures reflects a utilitarian history, built to endure the extremes of a climate that demands resilience from everything—both stone and soul—that calls this place home.

About This Albert Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Albert, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.452791, -99.011484. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Albert includes the ZIP code (67511), telephone area code (785), county seat of Barton County (Great Bend), and school district assignment (Otis-Bison Unified School District 403).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.