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Dighton Kansas Map

Explore Dighton, 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.

Interactive Map of Dighton, Kansas

How to Use This Dighton, Kansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Dighton, 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 Dighton.

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	Dighton
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Lane County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.481961
Longitude	-100.467084
Population	960
Density	427.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67839
Area Code	785
County Seat	Dighton
School District	Dighton Unified School District 482

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About Dighton, Kansas

Dighton is a locality in Lane County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 960. The population density is 427.5 people per km². Dighton is located at 38.4820°N, 100.4671°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Dighton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67839.

Dighton emerges from the vast, wheat-horizon plains as a place where the sky asserts its dominance over the earth, stretching in an unbroken arc of pale blue that demands silence from all beneath it. It lies 41.6 miles north-northeast of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 32°T), and is situated 23.8 miles east of Scott City. The South Fork Walnut Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the landscape, its banks lined with the gnarled, silver-barked cottonwoods that offer the only vertical relief against the flat, relentless expanse. Five miles away, the Garton Wildlife Area provides a sanctuary of native grasses and seasonal water, while the distant, jagged silhouette of Devils Backbone haunts the horizon like a memory of a more turbulent geology. Even the air here carries a specific gravity, heavy with the scent of sun-warmed soil and the dry, rhythmic whisper of wind moving through millions of stalks of grain.

Dighton remains anchored by the limestone courthouse, a structure that holds the weight of the past within its pale, quarried walls, standing as a sentinel over a history forged in the demanding work of the high plains. The local economy pulses with the slow, steady beat of agriculture, where the prosperity of the season is measured in the height of the harvest and the resilience of those who tend the fields. Life here follows the cadence of the seasons, moving with a deliberate, unadorned grace that ignores the frantic pace of the wider world. Whether a traveler pauses to find quiet at Lane County State Lake or simply watches the golden light of dusk transform the stubble of the fields into a sea of copper, Dighton offers a clarity found only in places where the horizon is wide enough to let a person breathe.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Garton Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 011° N
Lane Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.8 mi, 024° NE
Kansas Historical Marker: Homestead of a Genius (Attraction) — 14.6 mi, 098° E
Finney State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 20.9 mi, 160° S
Palmer Park (Local Park) — 23.1 mi, 269° W
Patton Park (Local Park) — 23.7 mi, 269° W
El Quartelejo Museum (Museum) — 24.4 mi, 270° W
Scott State Park (State Park) — 26.9 mi, 298° NW
Battle of Punished Woman's Fork (Monument) — 27.3 mi, 294° NW
Concannon State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 28.6 mi, 190° S
Castle Rock (Attraction) — 30.7 mi, 031° NE
Chalk Bluffs (Conservation Area) — 31.0 mi, 325° NW
Jerusalem Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 33.9 mi, 312° NW
Haun Museum (Museum) — 41.5 mi, 131° SE
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 41.5 mi, 061° NE
Statue of Liberty Historical marker (Public Artwork) — 41.8 mi, 212° SW
Finney County Historical Museum (Museum) — 42.2 mi, 211° SW
Lee Richardson Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 42.2 mi, 212° SW
Cedar Bluff Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 42.3 mi, 060° NE
Herbert and Bonnie Clutter family memorial (Monument) — 44.4 mi, 220° SW
Christ Pilot Me Hill (Monument) — 44.7 mi, 092° E
Seoul Canal Pump (Viewpoint) — 45.3 mi, 179° S
Butterfield Trail Museum (Museum) — 48.6 mi, 308° NW
Historic Marker: Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (Attraction) — 49.2 mi, 091° E
Fick Fossil and History Museum (Museum) — 49.4 mi, 335° NW
Santa Fe Trail Remains Lookout (Attraction) — 50.0 mi, 163° S
Saint Mary Of The Plains Park (Local Recreation) — 54.4 mi, 153° SE
B&B Dodge City Village 8 (Cinema) — 54.4 mi, 153° SE

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