Alton Kansas Map

About Alton, Kansas

Alton is a locality in Osborne County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 100. The population density is 125.0 people per km². Alton is located at 39.4708°N, 98.9481°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Alton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67623.

Alton rises from the expansive Kansas plains where the persistent wind carves a quiet, enduring geometry into the earth. It lies 45.6 miles north-northeast of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 26°T), and is situated 28.1 miles southeast of Phillipsburg. Crooked Creek weaves a singular, silver-threaded path through the fields, its banks lined with the gnarled patience of cottonwoods that lean against the vast, open sky. To the west, the distant Blue Hills blur into the horizon like a charcoal sketch, providing a steady anchor for the shifting light of dusk. The landscape here is defined by an immense, unyielding clarity, where the golden wheat fields seem to inhale the sun, leaving the soil beneath to cool in long, rhythmic shadows that stretch across the prairie floor.

Agriculture remains the pulse of Alton, a place where the economy is measured in the heavy, honest labor of the harvest and the slow turn of the seasons. History here is kept in the quiet resilience of those who cultivate the land, their lives echoing the persistence of early settlers who looked toward the horizon for purpose rather than shelter. Life moves with the deliberate pace of a long-established cycle, punctuated by the occasional excursion to the waters of Kirwin Reservoir or the quiet, untamed expanses of the Woodson Diversion Wildlife Area. In the stillness of a summer evening, when the heat finally lifts from the limestone foundations, the spirit of the plains feels less like a void and more like a profound, echoing presence that demands nothing but an observant eye.

About This Alton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Alton, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.470844, -98.948139. 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 Alton includes the ZIP code (67623), telephone area code (785), county seat of Osborne County (Osborne), and school district assignment (Osborne County Unified School District 392).

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.