Explore Burdick, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Burdick, 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 Burdick.
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 | Burdick |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Morris County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.563622 |
| Longitude | -96.845568 |
| Population | 62 |
| Density | 23.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 66838 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| County Seat | Council Grove |
| School District | Centre Unified School District 397 |
Burdick emerges from the vast, amber-hued expanse of the Kansas plains as a quiet intersection of earth and sky. It lies 32.1 miles south of Junction City, KS (from Junction City, KS: bearing 181°T), and is situated 9.1 miles southeast of Herington. The landscape around Burdick is defined by the unrelenting reach of the prairie, where the tallgrass bends in a fluid, rhythmic dance under the persistent press of the wind. A mile to the west, Spring Creek carves a thin, shadowed artery through the soil, its banks lined with the gnarled, silver-barked cottonwoods that thrive in the moisture of the low ground. In the far distance, the faint, jagged silhouette of Grant Ridge occasionally shimmers against the horizon when the air clears after a storm, a reminder of the tectonic weight that sits far beyond these flat, expansive fields.
Agriculture remains the singular heartbeat of the local economy, with the seasonal cycle of planting and harvest dictating the slow, deliberate pace of life. Originally forged by the expansion of the railways, the settlement retains the sturdy, utilitarian architecture of an era when grain elevators served as the cathedrals of the plains. While the proximity to the Greater Flint Hills Fee offers a preserved glimpse of the native tallgrass ecosystem, the residents focus their days on the maintenance of these fertile, sun-drenched acres. On humid summer afternoons, the light turns a deep, bruised gold, casting elongated shadows across the quiet streets and reflecting the enduring, pragmatic spirit of those who choose to anchor their lives in this open, unadorned terrain.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Burdick, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.563622, -96.845568. 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 Burdick includes the ZIP code (66838), telephone area code (913), county seat of Morris County (Council Grove), and school district assignment (Centre Unified School District 397).
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. |