Chicopee Kansas Map

About Chicopee, Kansas

Chicopee is a locality in Crawford County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 422. The population density is 51.5 people per km². Chicopee is located at 37.3820°N, 94.7419°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 66762.

Chicopee occupies a stretch of prairie where the horizon leans low against the earth, creating a vast, open theater for the shifting Kansas light. It lies 2.8 miles southwest of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 225°T), and is situated 5.9 miles south-southwest of Frontenac. The land here is defined by the steady, unyielding presence of Second Cow Creek, which marks the low ground just a mile away, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that shiver in the constant breeze. To the east, the terrain rises in quiet, grassy swells that eventually lead toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Breezy Hill, while the soil itself holds the memory of ancient, deep-rooted tallgrass. When the sun retreats at dusk, the sky bruises into shades of violet and ochre, casting a long, amber glow over the fields that makes the very air feel heavy with the weight of the coming night.

Chicopee grew from the marrow of the earth, its early existence inextricably tied to the deep scars left by legacy mining, now reclaimed by the quietude of the Mined Land Wildlife Area. This proximity to the land’s transformation informs a local economy that has shifted from the extraction of resources to a steady, patient stewardship of the plains. Life in Chicopee moves with the slow, deliberate pulse of the seasons, far removed from the frantic pace of larger hubs, yet linked to the wider world through the grain that moves along the rail lines. Residents often travel toward the Lester R Davis Memorial State Forest or the distant waters of Blackberry Hay Farm Lake for respite, finding in the quietude a reflection of the town’s own enduring, unassuming character.

About This Chicopee Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chicopee, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.381996, -94.741905. 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 Chicopee includes the ZIP code (66762), telephone area code (913), county seat of Crawford County (Girard), and school district assignment (Cherokee Unified School District 247).

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.