Ellis Kansas Map

About Ellis, Kansas

Ellis is a locality in Ellis County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,958. The population density is 456.2 people per km². Ellis is located at 38.9381°N, 99.5607°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ellis is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67637.

Ellis anchors itself upon the high, sun-bleached expanse of the central plains, where the horizon stretches flat and wide enough to swallow the color from the sky. It lies 13.2 miles west-northwest of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 288°T), and is situated 58.4 miles northwest of Great Bend. Big Creek carves a shallow, wandering path through the earth nearby, marked by the silver-green shivering of cottonwood leaves that catch the prevailing wind. The air here carries a dry, persistent clarity, sharpened by the absence of heavy timber and the relentless sweep of weather across the open ground. While the landscape seems monolithic at a glance, subtle shifts in the soil reveal the textures of a working geography, where the land meets the sky in a long, unbroken seam of pale gold and dusty gray.

Ellis bears the weight of a frontier heritage, forged by the steady arrival of iron rails that once dictated the pulse of commerce and migration. The rhythms of the modern economy still echo the industry of those early years, balancing the demands of agriculture against the quiet persistence of local trade. Beyond the immediate reach of the streets, the terrain softens toward the distance, where the silhouette of Round House Rock rises as a lonely sentinel against the fading light of dusk. Residents find their own measure of space in the quietude, moving through days that are defined more by the seasonal turning of the wheat than by the frantic pace of distant centers, remaining tethered to a place where the earth is deep and the sky is wide.

About This Ellis Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ellis, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.938066, -99.560667. 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 Ellis includes the ZIP code (67637), telephone area code (785), county seat of Ellis County (Hays), and school district assignment (Ellis Unified School District 388).

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.