Centropolis Kansas Map

About Centropolis, Kansas

Centropolis is a locality in Franklin County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 100. The population density is 115.3 people per km². Centropolis is located at 38.7161°N, 95.3503°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 66067.

Centropolis emerges from the vast, open expanse of the plains where the sky holds a heavy, meditative quality that seems to press the golden wheat toward the earth. It lies 8.3 miles north-northwest of Ottawa, KS (from Ottawa, KS: bearing 327°T), and is situated 9.7 miles west-southwest of Baldwin City. Cole Creek carves a quiet, silt-laden path through the landscape, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that shiver and sigh whenever the relentless prairie wind shifts its direction. To the west, the Sand Hills rise like a blurred, pale bruise against the horizon, anchoring the otherwise limitless view. While the ground here remains firm and terrestrial, the light at dusk transforms the flat fields into a sea of amber, casting long, melancholy shadows that stretch toward Natural Springs Lake, which waits in the stillness four miles away.

Centropolis carries the weight of a history rooted in the soil, where the economy remains tethered to the cycles of planting and the slow, steady rhythm of agricultural labor. The local character is defined by a stoic endurance, a quiet remnant of the generations who learned to thrive amidst the volatile winds and the unforgiving sun. Residents often seek a brief respite at Forest Park & North Locust Street, a patch of managed green seven miles out that offers a rare, deliberate order to the wilder sprawl of the surrounding farmland. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a clock pendulum, reflecting a community that values the solidity of its limestone foundations and the quiet persistence of those who call Centropolis their own.

About This Centropolis Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Centropolis, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.716119, -95.350254. 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 Centropolis includes the ZIP code (66067), telephone area code (913), county seat of Franklin County (Ottawa), and school district assignment (West Franklin Unified School District 287).

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.