Arcadia Kansas Map

About Arcadia, Kansas

Arcadia is a locality in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 254. The population density is 226.0 people per km². Arcadia is located at 37.6420°N, 94.6238°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Arcadia is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66711.

Arcadia defines the edge of the southeastern Kansas prairie, where the land stretches into a vast, muted expanse of tallgrass and intermittent hardwood groves. It lies 16.6 miles north-northeast of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 16°T), and is situated 14.4 miles south-southeast of Fort Scott. Cox Creek meanders through the low ground near Arcadia, its banks lined with the gnarled, silver-barked cottonwoods that thrive in the damp, heavy soil of the riverbed. The horizon remains wide and unencumbered, though the faint, jagged silhouette of the Rombaugh Hills occasionally ghosts the western sky when the air is thin and cold. In the golden hour, the light flattens across the fields, casting long, bruised shadows that emphasize the subtle, rhythmic swells of the terrain.

Arcadia emerged from the expansion of the nineteenth-century rail lines, serving as a vital point for the coal mining and agricultural interests that once galvanized the local economy. While the heavy industry of the past has quieted, the pulse of the region remains tied to the cycles of the earth and the quiet stewardship of the surrounding plains. Residents often venture four miles toward the Drywood Conservation Area, where the land is preserved in a state of wild, untamed stillness, or look toward the Bone Creek Reservoir for the quiet reflection of water against the prairie wind. Life in Arcadia proceeds with a deliberate, measured gravity, reflecting a history shaped by the resilience of those who first broke this sod and the enduring patience of the landscape itself.

About This Arcadia Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Arcadia, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.641989, -94.623848. 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 Arcadia includes the ZIP code (66711), telephone area code (913), county seat of Crawford County (Girard), and school district assignment (Northeast Unified School District 246).

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.