Bendena Kansas Map
Explore Bendena, 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 Bendena, Kansas
How to Use This Bendena, Kansas Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Bendena, 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 Bendena.
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 | Bendena |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Doniphan County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.741108 |
| Longitude | -95.179418 |
| Population | 117 |
| Density | 29.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 66008 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| County Seat | Troy |
| School District | Doniphan West Unified School District 111 |
About Bendena, Kansas
Bendena is a locality in Doniphan County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 117. The population density is 29.5 people per km². Bendena is located at 39.7411°N, 95.1794°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 66008.Bendena emerges from the vast expanse of the Kansas plains as a quiet intersection of horizon and earth, where the sky claims more territory than the soil. It lies 12.7 miles north-northwest of Atchison, KS (from Atchison, KS: bearing 346°T), and is situated 17.8 miles west of Saint Joseph. The landscape here is defined by the persistent, restless wind that shapes the tallgrass and carries the scent of dry earth, moving across fields that stretch toward the distant silhouette of Lookout Mountain. A mile away, the quiet passage of Cold Ryan Branch cuts through the topography, its banks lined with cottonwoods that silver in the breeze. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain holds the memory of ancient glacial shifts, marked by a subtle, tectonic patience that makes the transition from flat prairie to the deeper shadows of Bluffwoods State Forest feel like a long, slow inhalation of the land.
Bendena remains a place where the economy is tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, a legacy of the settlers who first broke this sod and recognized the fertility hidden beneath the gray, stubborn dirt. The pulse of the locality is measured by the seasonal turning of crops and the occasional traveler moving toward the Atchison State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area, which offers a rare stillness to the surrounding agricultural grid. Life follows the unforced pace of the county roads, where the presence of a limestone foundation or a rusted grain silo reveals a persistence that has outlasted the boom-and-bust cycles of the past. Even in the height of summer, when the heat shimmers off the asphalt, there is a distinct, grounded clarity to the air that reminds those who remain of the simple, unadorned gravity of the plains.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Statue of Liberty (Public Artwork) — 5.7 mi, 057° NE
- Nelson Rogers Residence (Attraction) — 5.8 mi, 057° NE
- Atchison State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 7.0 mi, 177° S
- Atchison State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 7.2 mi, 177° S
- Kansas Historical Marker - Troy (Attraction) — 7.6 mi, 062° NE
- The Lookout (Viewpoint) — 12.1 mi, 162° S
- Evah C. Cray Historical Home Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 165° S
- Muchnic Gallery (Gallery) — 12.4 mi, 164° S
- Riverbreaks Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.4 mi, 015° N
- Riverfront Park (Local Park) — 12.4 mi, 163° S
- Unknown Park (Local Park) — 12.7 mi, 084° E
- Bluffwoods Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.6 mi, 126° SE
- Warnock Lake (Local Recreation) — 13.8 mi, 172° S
- International Forest of Friendship (Monument) — 14.5 mi, 174° S
- Lewis And Clark State Park (State Park) — 15.1 mi, 152° SE
- Fort Smtih (Historic Castle / Fort) — 17.0 mi, 083° E
- HCC Art at the Barn (Arts Centre) — 17.2 mi, 294° NW
- St. Joseph Missouri (Monument) — 17.6 mi, 086° E
- CB&Q Locomotive 5614 (Attraction) — 17.6 mi, 086° E
- Historic Caretakers Cabin (Historic Ruins) — 18.6 mi, 257° W
- Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 19.3 mi, 293° NW
- Windmill Lane (Museum) — 19.6 mi, 292° W
- Brown County Ag Museum (Museum) — 19.6 mi, 292° W
- Black Archives Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 083° E
- Glore Psychiatric Museum (Museum) — 19.9 mi, 083° E
- Hiawatha Area Arts and Theater Society (Theatre) — 20.4 mi, 292° W
- Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 21.5 mi, 351° N · 15k acres
- Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.5 mi, 045° NE · 3,906 acres
- Weston Bend State Park (State Park) — 27.6 mi, 147° SE
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About This Bendena Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bendena, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.741108, -95.179418. 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 Bendena includes the ZIP code (66008), telephone area code (913), county seat of Doniphan County (Troy), and school district assignment (Doniphan West Unified School District 111).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
