Blue Mound Kansas Map

About Blue Mound, Kansas

Blue Mound is a locality in Linn County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 219. The population density is 133.0 people per km². Blue Mound is located at 38.0900°N, 95.0064°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Blue Mound is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66010.

Blue Mound rises from the Kansas plains like a sudden, stubborn assertion of bedrock against the persistent leveling of the wind. It lies 39.0 miles south-southeast of Ottawa, KS (from Ottawa, KS: bearing 159°T), and is situated 18.4 miles southeast of Garnett. Irish Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path through the surrounding terrain, its banks lined with cottonwoods that shiver in the perpetual breeze, while the quiet surface of Blue Mound Reservoir lies only a mile away, capturing the pale, wide sky in its still basin. Beyond the immediate horizon, the distant outline of the Rombaugh Hills suggests a world of greater verticality, though here the land favors the long, horizontal reach of prairie grasses and fertile soil. The quality of light at dusk is particularly transformative, turning the dry stalks of the fields into copper wire and casting shadows that stretch with a slow, deliberate gravity across the earth.

Agriculture remains the pulse of Blue Mound, an economy tethered to the seasonal turning of the soil and the quiet industry of those who steward the land. The history of the locality is etched into the modest architecture of its foundations, where the memory of earlier, leaner years lingers in the resilience of the residents. While the bustle of larger centers remains a distant abstraction, life here follows the steady, rhythmic cadence of the seasons, occasionally drawing inhabitants toward the expansive, protected wildness of the Anderson County Prairies Fee. In the silence that settles over the plains after the sun dips below the Spring Valley, one feels the weight of a landscape that demands patience, offering in return a profound, unadorned clarity that persists long after the daylight fades.

About This Blue Mound Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Blue Mound, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.09003, -95.006359. 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 Blue Mound includes the ZIP code (66010), telephone area code (913), county seat of Linn County (Mound City), and school district assignment (Jayhawk Unified School District 346).

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.