Alma Kansas Map

About Alma, Kansas

Alma is a locality in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 802. The population density is 529.3 people per km². Alma is located at 39.0167°N, 96.2892°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Alma is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66401.

Alma emerges from the tallgrass prairie as a quiet congregation of limestone and timber, where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun whole. It lies 19.0 miles southeast of Manhattan, KS (from Manhattan, KS: bearing 127°T), and is situated 12.8 miles south of Wamego. The land here rises and falls in long, rhythmic swells of earth that lead toward the rugged edges of Clapboard Canyon, a mere mile from the center of town. Mill Creek carves a thin, reflective ribbon through the landscape, its banks lined with cottonwoods that shiver in the constant, restless wind. Beyond the immediate terrain, the silhouette of Grant Ridge sits as a distant, hazy promise against the sky, while the vast, uncultivated expanses of the Greater Flint Hills Fee offer a sanctuary for the native flora that defines this high, inland plateau.

Alma carries the weight of a frontier heritage in the sturdy, pale blocks of the county-seat courthouse, a structure that anchors the town’s civic life with stoic elegance. The economy remains tethered to the soil, reflecting a long history of agricultural labor that persists despite the shifting tides of the modern world. Life moves with the deliberate pace of a season, where the golden light of late afternoon burnishes the stone facades and the scent of dry grass lingers in the cooling air. While Lake Elbo provides a more distant destination for those seeking a respite from the wheat-horizon plains, the local rhythm is dictated by the turning of the crops and the enduring, quiet industry of the people who call Alma home.

About This Alma Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alma, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.016666, -96.289162. 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 Alma includes the ZIP code (66401), telephone area code (913), county seat of Wabaunsee County (Alma), and school district assignment (Wabaunsee Unified School District 329).

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.