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Barnes Kansas Map

Explore Barnes, 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 Barnes, Kansas

How to Use This Barnes, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	39.711946
Longitude	-96.874466
Population	165
Density	374.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	66933
Area Code	913
County Seat	Washington
School District	Barnes Unified School District 223

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About Barnes, Kansas

Barnes is a locality in Washington County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 165. The population density is 374.7 people per km². Barnes is located at 39.7119°N, 96.8745°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Barnes is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66933.

Barnes occupies a quiet expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pulled across the sky like a canvas of endless, pale wheat. It lies 39.9 miles north-northwest of Manhattan, KS (from Manhattan, KS: bearing 336°T), and is situated 15.0 miles southwest of Marysville. Camp Creek meanders past the periphery, its banks lined with the grey, skeletal silhouettes of cottonwoods that shiver whenever the persistent wind decides to scour the earth. The air here holds a particular clarity at dusk, when the light turns the color of bruised plums and the flat terrain seems to amplify the silence of the surrounding fields. Fifteen miles to the west, the silhouette of Indian Mound rises as a solitary, dark punctuation mark against the vast, unremarkable geometry of the prairie.

Barnes carries the weight of a long-settled rural history, its economy tethered to the slow, deliberate turning of the agricultural seasons. While the bustle of Tuttle Creek Recreation Area draws travelers eleven miles away to the water, life in Barnes remains anchored to the local grain elevators and the steady maintenance of the surrounding farmsteads. The landscape offers little in the way of dramatic relief, save for the occasional shimmer of Idlewild Lake resting seven miles out, a mirror for the wandering clouds. Daily life here possesses a rhythm dictated by the sun and the soil, where the persistence of the generations who first broke this ground remains evident in the sturdy, unadorned architecture that defines the local view.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tuttle Creek Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 10.6 mi, 098° E
Alcove Spring (Viewpoint) — 10.7 mi, 076° E
Monument to the Ice Age (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 100° E
City Park (Local Park) — 14.9 mi, 054° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 14.9 mi, 053° NE
Pony Express Rider (Public Artwork) — 15.0 mi, 053° NE
Feldhausen Field (Local Recreation) — 15.6 mi, 054° NE
Immanuel Lutheran School Museum (Museum) — 16.3 mi, 020° N
Washington State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 19.2 mi, 318° NW
Washington State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 19.4 mi, 318° NW
Tuttle Creek State Parks (State Park) — 19.6 mi, 158° S
Tuttle Creek Lake (Recreation Area) — 19.9 mi, 157° SE
Oregon Trail Marker (Monument) — 20.1 mi, 354° N
Strawberry (Monument) — 20.3 mi, 270° W
Diamond Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 22.3 mi, 000° N
Mariadahl Steeple (Monument) — 23.8 mi, 145° SE
Rock Glen Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 27.8 mi, 340° N
Arts & Memories Museum (Museum) — 28.8 mi, 175° S
Jefferson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 33.1 mi, 331° NW
Magic School (Historic Ruins) — 34.1 mi, 176° S
The Carnegie Building (Gallery) — 39.0 mi, 010° N
Homestead National Monument Heritage Center (Museum) — 39.7 mi, 004° N
Amphitheatre (Arts Centre) — 41.0 mi, 282° W
Republic County Historical Society (Museum) — 41.0 mi, 280° W
Brown Grand Opera House (Theatre) — 43.1 mi, 257° W
Locomotive 6072 (Attraction) — 44.2 mi, 173° S
Missile Silo Home (Attraction) — 44.6 mi, 140° SE
Site of Old Up Turntable and Roundhouse (Attraction) — 46.5 mi, 177° S
Saline Fsa (National Wildlife Refuge) — 49.0 mi, 342° N · 124 acres
Indian Cave State Park (State Park) — 78.0 mi, 060° NE

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