Explore Delphos, 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 Delphos, 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 Delphos.
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 | Delphos |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Ottawa County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.273889 |
| Longitude | -97.771983 |
| Population | 302 |
| Density | 196.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67436 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Minneapolis |
| School District | North Ottawa County Unified School District 239 |
Delphos maintains a quiet gravity upon the high, flat expanse of the Kansas plains, where the horizon stretches thin and pale against the sky. It lies 31.2 miles north-northwest of Salina, KS (from Salina, KS: bearing 344°T), and is situated 11.1 miles north-northwest of Minneapolis. Henry Creek carves a modest, meandering path through the earth nearby, its banks lined with the gray, gnarled trunks of cottonwoods that shiver in the constant movement of the air. To the west, the distant rise of the Blue Hills marks the edge of the world, a faint charcoal smudge against the sunset that reminds the traveler of the vast, open space surrounding this place. The light here is sharp and unrelenting, casting long, lean shadows across the fields that seem to amplify the silence between the gusts of wind.
Delphos emerged from the ambition of settlers who saw promise in the deep, dark soil, establishing an economy tethered firmly to the rhythms of wheat and harvest. The legacy of the land is measured in the steady pulse of agricultural commerce, where the movement of grain silos and the passing of heavy machinery dictate the daily tempo of life. While modern concerns pull at the edges of the grid, the people here remain anchored to the cycles of the seasons, often finding respite at the Ottawa State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area or the shores of State Lake, both of which offer a stillness found nowhere else in the county. Life in Delphos is defined by this persistent, grounded industry, a quiet endurance that mirrors the resilience of the prairie grass beneath a wide, indifferent sky.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Delphos, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.273889, -97.771983. 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 Delphos includes the ZIP code (67436), telephone area code (785), county seat of Ottawa County (Minneapolis), and school district assignment (North Ottawa County Unified School District 239).
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. |