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Bird City Kansas Map

Explore Bird City, 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 Bird City, Kansas

How to Use This Bird City, Kansas Map

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

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	Bird City
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Cheyenne County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.750829
Longitude	-101.532944
Population	437
Density	74.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67731
Area Code	785
County Seat	St. Francis
School District	Cheylin Unified School District 103

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About Bird City, Kansas

Bird City is a locality in Cheyenne County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 437. The population density is 74.5 people per km². Bird City is located at 39.7508°N, 101.5329°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bird City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67731.

Bird City stretches across the High Plains like a prayer written in gold and amber, where the horizon serves as a flat, infinite line dividing the earth from the vast, unblinking sky. It lies 128.0 miles north-northwest of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 344°T), and is situated 29.2 miles north-northeast of Goodland. The landscape here is defined by the relentless, rhythmic sweep of the wind, which combs through the tallgrass and carries the scent of dry soil across the open expanse. Three miles away, the modest channel of Big Timber Creek offers a rare interruption to the flat terrain, its banks lined with the gnarled, silver-barked cottonwoods that provide the only shade for miles. Farther out, the land deepens into the rugged, quiet shadows of Wolfe Canyon, while the water at Leach Pond remains a still, reflective mirror for the shifting clouds. The light at dusk is particularly striking, turning the flat expanses into a bruised violet that seems to hold the very silence of the plains.

Bird City emerged from the ambition of pioneers who looked at the immense, featureless prairie and saw a future built upon the strength of the harvest. Today, the economy remains tethered to the golden cycle of wheat and corn, the silos standing as vertical monuments to the labor that keeps the region breathing. Life in Bird City possesses a deliberate, measured pace, dictated not by the clock, but by the seasonal demands of the fields and the sudden, dramatic shifts in the weather. For those seeking a connection to the wilder, untouched remnants of this topography, the South Fork Wildlife Area offers a sanctuary where the original character of the land persists. The people here cultivate a stoic resilience, a quiet acknowledgment that they occupy a place where the grandeur of the horizon is matched only by the perseverance of those who call it home.

Nearby Outdoor Places

South Fork Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.8 mi, 330° NW
Motorcycle Museum (Museum) — 14.3 mi, 277° W
St. Francis Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.0 mi, 268° W
Dundy County Museum (Museum) — 20.6 mi, 360° N
School Number 65 (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 23.6 mi, 253° W
Texas Trail Canyon Historical Marker (Monument) — 25.5 mi, 318° NW
Blue Ridge School (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 26.0 mi, 282° W
Rock Creek State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 26.1 mi, 333° NW
Buffalo Statue (Public Artwork) — 26.2 mi, 082° E
Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 26.5 mi, 081° E
Land and Sky (Attraction) — 27.4 mi, 309° NW
South Republican Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 29.0 mi, 256° W
Goodland Swimming Pool Park (Local Park) — 29.6 mi, 198° S
World's Largest Easel (Attraction) — 30.0 mi, 198° S
Little House Museum (Museum) — 31.7 mi, 030° NE
KS CO NB tripoint (Monument) — 32.6 mi, 303° NW
Swanson Lake (Resource Management Area) — 33.4 mi, 035° NE
Bonny Lake State Park (State Park) — 35.1 mi, 254° W
Bonny Lake State Park/South Republican State Wildlife Area (State Park) — 35.1 mi, 255° W
Young Park (Local Park) — 35.9 mi, 132° SE
Prairie Museum of Art and History (Museum) — 37.0 mi, 135° SE
Hitchcock County Museum (Museum) — 40.3 mi, 043° NE
Sherman State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 40.6 mi, 198° S
Enders Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 46.0 mi, 001° N
Midway Theater (Cinema) — 49.8 mi, 232° SW
Sappa Park (Local Recreation) — 54.8 mi, 084° E
Mount Sunflower (Attraction) — 57.1 mi, 208° SW
Jerusalem Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 64.8 mi, 155° SE

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