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Alton Kansas Map

Explore Alton, Kansas, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Alton, Kansas

How to Use This Alton, Kansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Alton, Kansas. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Kansas or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Alton.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Alton
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Osborne County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.470844
Longitude	-98.948139
Population	100
Density	125.0 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67623
Area Code	785
County Seat	Osborne
School District	Osborne County Unified School District 392

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Woodson Diversion Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 262° W
Geodetic Center of North America (Monument) — 13.6 mi, 095° E
Statue of Liberty Replica (Monument) — 13.8 mi, 039° NE
Walronds Stockade (Monument) — 14.6 mi, 069° E
Kirwin Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 15.9 mi, 324° NW
Rooks State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 20.1 mi, 257° W
Glen Elder Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 20.4 mi, 086° E
Glen Elder Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 25.3 mi, 094° E
Webster State Park (State Park) — 25.8 mi, 259° W
World's Largest Ball of Sisal Twine (Attraction) — 27.6 mi, 084° E
Majestic Theatre (Cinema) — 28.0 mi, 315° NW
Glen Elder State Park (State Park) — 30.7 mi, 083° E
Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States (Attraction) — 31.5 mi, 038° NE
Waconda Springs Replica (Attraction) — 32.4 mi, 085° E
Bison Statue (Public Artwork) — 33.5 mi, 085° E
Wilson Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 35.0 mi, 162° S
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 36.0 mi, 142° SE
Roy and Clara Miller's Park (Attraction) — 36.1 mi, 142° SE
Kansas Wildlife and Parks Area #1 (Local Recreation) — 38.5 mi, 159° S
Harlan County Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 41.3 mi, 341° N
Franklin County Museum (Museum) — 43.7 mi, 360° N
Guide Rock Diverson Dam (State Recreation Area) — 50.1 mi, 036° NE
Wilson Opera House (Theatre) — 51.4 mi, 150° SE
Lincoln County Historical Society (Museum) — 52.0 mi, 125° SE
Harlow Studio & Gallery (Gallery) — 52.1 mi, 125° SE
Crispin’s Drug Store Museum (Museum) — 52.2 mi, 124° SE
Post Rock Scout Museum (Museum) — 52.2 mi, 124° SE
Brown Grand Opera House (Theatre) — 68.8 mi, 084° E
Amphitheatre (Arts Centre) — 74.5 mi, 070° E

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