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Atwood Kansas Map

Explore Atwood, 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 Atwood, Kansas

How to Use This Atwood, Kansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Atwood, 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 Atwood.

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	Atwood
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Rawlins County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.806668
Longitude	-101.042101
Population	1,290
Density	468.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67730
Area Code	785
County Seat	Atwood
School District	Rawlins County Unified School District 105

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About Atwood, Kansas

Atwood is a locality in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,290. The population density is 468.6 people per km². Atwood is located at 39.8067°N, 101.0421°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Atwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67730.

Atwood commands the horizon where the relentless sky meets a vast, unyielding expanse of high plains. It lies 111.8 miles northwest of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 306°T), and is situated 28.4 miles north of Colby. Beaver Creek carves a shallow, vital artery through the earth, its banks lined with the gnarled silhouettes of cottonwoods that shiver in the perpetual Kansas wind. A mile distant, the still, quiet surface of Atwood Lake reflects the shifting colors of a sun that seems to linger longer here than anywhere else, casting long, bruised shadows across the golden wheat fields. The land is a study in geometry and endurance, where the flatness of the terrain forces the gaze upward, compelling the traveler to acknowledge the sheer, overwhelming scale of the atmosphere above.

Atwood remains a bastion of the agrarian cycle, its character forged by generations who learned to coax a living from the soil despite the capricious temper of the climate. The economy pulses with the seasonal rhythm of the harvest, drawing its strength from the grain elevators that stand as sentinels over the prairie, marking the progress of the year. History is etched into the sturdy limestone of the courthouse, a structure that anchors the center of the grid and speaks to the gravity of the civic life that has persisted here since the frontier days. In the quiet evenings, the air carries a faint, dry scent of dust and ripening stalks, a sensory memory of a landscape that demands both respect and resilience from those who call Atwood home.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 057° NE
Metal Garden (Public Artwork) — 0.2 mi, 203° SW
Swanson Lake (Resource Management Area) — 23.0 mi, 356° N
Hitchcock County Museum (Museum) — 25.5 mi, 004° N
Little House Museum (Museum) — 25.7 mi, 337° NW
Young Park (Local Park) — 27.8 mi, 178° S
Sappa Park (Local Recreation) — 28.5 mi, 086° E
Prairie Museum of Art and History (Museum) — 30.2 mi, 180° S
Dundy County Museum (Museum) — 31.0 mi, 303° NW
South Fork Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 33.8 mi, 284° W
Barnett Park (Local Park) — 34.3 mi, 040° NE
Museum of the High Plains (Museum) — 35.1 mi, 039° NE
McCook Army Air Base Historical Marker (Monument) — 38.9 mi, 028° NE
Hugh Butler Lake (Resource Management Area) — 41.5 mi, 026° NE
Rock Creek State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 42.7 mi, 297° NW
Texas Trail Canyon Historical Marker (Monument) — 45.7 mi, 289° W
World's Largest Easel (Attraction) — 47.9 mi, 228° SW
Land and Sky (Attraction) — 49.2 mi, 286° W
School Number 65 (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 49.8 mi, 258° W
Pleasant Hill School (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 50.5 mi, 282° W
Norton Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 52.3 mi, 092° E
South Republican Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 55.3 mi, 259° W
Prairie Dog State Park (State Park) — 56.6 mi, 090° E
Sherman State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 57.3 mi, 222° SW
Jerusalem Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 60.6 mi, 176° S
Bonny Lake State Park/South Republican State Wildlife Area (State Park) — 61.4 mi, 258° W
Midway Theater (Cinema) — 73.9 mi, 242° SW
Mount Sunflower (Attraction) — 75.9 mi, 225° SW

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