Bushton Kansas Map

About Bushton, Kansas

Bushton is a locality in Rice County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 203. The population density is 343.8 people per km². Bushton is located at 38.5125°N, 98.3953°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Bushton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67427.

Bushton occupies a vast, level expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon acts as a relentless, shimmering boundary between the earth and the wide-open sky. It lies 22.5 miles east-northeast of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 63°T), and is situated 15.6 miles northwest of Lyons. The landscape is defined by the subtle, rhythmic swell of prairie grasses and the persistent, restless wind that carries the scent of dry soil and distant harvest. Only a mile away, the quiet passage of Plum Creek carves a thin, verdant line through the otherwise uniform terrain, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that lean toward the water as if listening to the current. The light here at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, turning the golden wheat stubble into a field of deepening copper before the stars assert themselves in the absolute darkness of the plains.

Bushton maintains a quiet endurance rooted in the rigorous demands of agricultural life, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of planting and the steady labor of the grain elevators that mark the skyline. The history of the region is whispered in the weathered wood of older structures and the collective memory of a landscape that demands both grit and patience from those who work its soil. Residents find a broader connection to the natural world just eleven miles away at the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, a vital expanse that draws migratory birds and provides a stark, necessary contrast to the cultivated fields. Life in Bushton moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, a place where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the rhythmic hum of machinery or the distant, lonely whistle of a passing train.

About This Bushton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bushton, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.51251, -98.395345. 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 Bushton includes the ZIP code (67427), telephone area code (785), county seat of Rice County (Lyons), and school district assignment (Central Plains Unified School District 112).

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.