Big Bow Kansas Map

About Big Bow, Kansas

Big Bow is a locality in Stanton County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 86. The population density is 11.4 people per km². Big Bow is located at 37.5650°N, 101.5616°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 67855.

Big Bow lies in a landscape where the earth breathes under an immense sky. It lies 47.0 miles south-west of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 233°T), and is situated 11.4 miles west of Ulysses. The land here is a study in subtle shifts, a vast, sun-bleached prairie stretching towards horizons that blur into the pale blue. Rolling swells of grassland, parched gold in the dry heat, give way to flatter expanses where the wind, an unseen sculptor, plays ceaselessly across the terrain. Occasional clumps of hardy, wind-bent trees offer brief, dark punctuation marks against the overwhelming openness, their branches reaching like gnarled hands towards the heavens. The air itself carries a dry, clean scent, a blend of dust and the faint, sweet perfume of wild grasses, and in the late afternoon, the light takes on a honeyed quality, casting long, languid shadows that seem to deepen the very soul of the land. The history of Big Bow is etched not in grand monuments but in the quiet persistence of those who worked this earth, their lives a testament to resilience. This was a place born of the plow, a frontier outpost where the promise of fertile soil drew settlers seeking a new beginning. The local economy, deeply rooted in agriculture, still echoes with the steady rhythm of planting and harvest, the lifeblood of the community flowing from fields of wheat and corn that unfurl like rumpled carpets across the landscape. While no major highways bisect this quiet corner of the prairie, the few roads that do serve as arteries, connecting scattered farmsteads and the modest heart of Big Bow itself, a place where time seems to move at the unhurried pace of the seasons, marked by the slow march of the sun across the wide Kansas sky.

About This Big Bow Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Big Bow, Kansas — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 37.565019, -101.561558. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Big Bow and Stanton County.

Detailed location data for Big Bow includes the ZIP code (67855), telephone area code (785), county seat of Stanton County (Johnson City), and school district assignment (Stanton County Unified School District 452). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Big Bow is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.