Bazine Kansas Map

About Bazine, Kansas

Bazine is a locality in Ness County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 282. The population density is 242.5 people per km². Bazine is located at 38.4445°N, 99.6921°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bazine is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67516.

Bazine anchors itself upon the vast, sun-bleached expanse of the Kansas plains, where the horizon stretches thin and taut like a pulled wire. It lies 35.9 miles south-southwest of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 213°T), and is situated 34.8 miles south-southwest of Ellis. Walnut Creek traces a slow, deliberate path past the outskirts, its banks lined with the gnarled, silvered trunks of cottonwoods that lean toward the water as if listening to the earth. The air here holds a clarity that sharpens the edges of every fence post and grain silo, rendering the landscape in stark, high-contrast relief. When the sun begins its descent, the light takes on a bruised, amber quality, casting long, melancholic shadows that reach across the fields toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Round House Rock.

Bazine maintains the quiet, sturdy rhythm of a place forged by the persistence of the plow and the unforgiving cycle of the seasons. The economy remains tethered to the rhythmic output of the surrounding wheat fields, a legacy that persists long after the memories of the Dust Bowl have faded into the collective consciousness of the high plains. Residents often look toward the Goodman State Lake and Wildlife Area for a respite of quiet observation, or occasionally venture toward the broader waters of Cedar Bluff Reservoir to find a different kind of stillness. Life in Bazine proceeds without fanfare, defined by the steady, unyielding work of agriculture and the knowledge that the wind, which never truly sleeps, is the only constant companion of the plains.

About This Bazine Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bazine, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.444459, -99.692063. 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 Bazine includes the ZIP code (67516), telephone area code (785), county seat of Ness County (Ness City), and school district assignment (Western Plains Unified School District 106).

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.