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Bronson Kansas Map

Explore Bronson, 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 Bronson, Kansas

How to Use This Bronson, Kansas Map

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

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	Bronson
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Bourbon County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	37.895871
Longitude	-95.073308
Population	304
Density	262.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	66716
Area Code	913
County Seat	Fort Scott
School District	Uniontown Unified School District 235

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About Bronson, Kansas

Bronson is a locality in Bourbon County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 304. The population density is 262.6 people per km². Bronson is located at 37.8959°N, 95.0733°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bronson is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66716.

Bronson emerges from the vast expanse of the Kansas prairie as a quiet congregation of rooftops anchored to the earth by the relentless, sweeping wind. It lies 39.1 miles north-northwest of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 329°T), and is situated 17.9 miles east of Iola. Schubert Creek traces a thin, verdant vein through the surrounding fields just a mile away, its banks lined with the gnarled silhouettes of cottonwoods that shiver in the relentless gusts. To the far horizon, the faint, hazy suggestion of the Rombaugh Hills marks the edge of the world, while the sky above Bronson remains an immense, unblinking dome of pale blue that turns the color of bruised plums as the sun retreats. The landscape here is defined by the heavy, dark soil of the plains, a geography that demands patience and rewards the eye with the subtle, shifting textures of tallgrass bowing in unison under the weight of the afternoon air.

Bronson carries the quiet gravity of a place built upon the labor of the soil, where the local economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest and the seasonal turn of the grain. The heritage of the surrounding plains persists in the sturdy, utilitarian architecture that defines the streetscape, standing as a plain-spoken record of those who first broke the sod. Residents often look toward the Bourbon Wildlife Area for the solitude of the tallgrass, or find the low, shadowed folds of Opossum Hollow a respite from the exposure of the open fields. Whether lingering near the still, glass-like surface of Dawson Lake or attending to the daily commerce that sustains the grid of streets, the people of Bronson move with a measured deliberation that mirrors the slow, inevitable growth of the crops that define their horizon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bourbon Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 176° S
Bourbon State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 6.8 mi, 178° S
Kansas Rocks (Theme Park) — 12.1 mi, 068° E
Hollister Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 14.9 mi, 121° SE
Spider Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 17.4 mi, 272° W
Gunn Park (Local Park) — 19.2 mi, 103° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 20.7 mi, 101° E
Anderson County Prairies Fee (Conservation Area) — 21.0 mi, 334° NW
Ware Monument (Monument) — 21.3 mi, 104° E
Crawford State Park (State Park) — 22.3 mi, 140° SE
Crawford State Park Lake (State Park) — 22.5 mi, 140° SE
Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum (Museum) — 25.4 mi, 235° SW
ATSF Caboose (Attraction) — 27.9 mi, 341° N
Marais Des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.6 mi, 044° NE · 15k acres
Franklin Community Center & Heritage Museum (Museum) — 32.8 mi, 142° SE
Miners Hall Museum (Museum) — 32.8 mi, 142° SE
World War 2 Memorial (Monument) — 35.5 mi, 028° NE
Prairie State Park (Viewpoint) — 37.6 mi, 133° SE
Pottawatomie Massacre Memorial (Monument) — 37.6 mi, 359° N
Railroad Depot (Attraction) — 39.2 mi, 149° SE
Parsons Theater (Cinema) — 39.6 mi, 195° S
Iron Horse Museum (Museum) — 40.0 mi, 195° S
Fort Africa (Toothman Farm) (Historic Castle / Fort) — 41.7 mi, 055° NE
Woodson State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 41.8 mi, 261° W
Page Dragline (Attraction) — 43.6 mi, 170° S
Big Brutus (Attraction) — 43.6 mi, 170° S
Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 47.5 mi, 304° NW · 37k acres
Fmr. location of Missouri Pacific Depot (Historic Ruins) — 50.9 mi, 348° N
Fmr. site of HU tower (Interlocking) (Historic Ruins) — 52.2 mi, 345° N
George Washington Carver National Monument (National Monument) — 73.7 mi, 148° SE · 241 acres

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