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Ellis Kansas Map

Explore Ellis, 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 Ellis, Kansas

How to Use This Ellis, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	38.938066
Longitude	-99.560667
Population	1,958
Density	456.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67637
Area Code	785
County Seat	Hays
School District	Ellis Unified School District 388

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 11.1 mi, 109° E
Geese Statue (Public Artwork) — 12.3 mi, 107° E
Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.4 mi, 229° SW
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 12.6 mi, 227° SW
Frontier Historical Park (Local Park) — 12.9 mi, 113° SE
Cedar Bluff Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 13.4 mi, 220° SW
Vineyard Park (Local Park) — 13.7 mi, 101° E
Dr. Howard Reynolds Nature Trails (Local Recreation) — 14.0 mi, 103° E
Webster State Park (State Park) — 31.3 mi, 012° N
Historic Marker: Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (Attraction) — 32.6 mi, 180° S
Castle Rock (Attraction) — 33.2 mi, 261° W
Rooks State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 33.5 mi, 022° N
Christ Pilot Me Hill (Monument) — 33.8 mi, 187° S
Sheridan Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 36.0 mi, 292° W
Sheridan State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 45.8 mi, 309° NW
Kansas Historical Marker: Homestead of a Genius (Attraction) — 48.2 mi, 226° SW
Expo Center (Attraction) — 54.9 mi, 137° SE
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 55.5 mi, 081° E
Kansas Oil and Gas Museum (Museum) — 56.5 mi, 135° SE
Meades Ranch Triangulation Station (Monument) — 57.7 mi, 070° E
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 57.9 mi, 013° N
Majestic Theatre (Cinema) — 57.9 mi, 013° N
Great Bend Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 58.0 mi, 132° SE
Wilson Opera House (Theatre) — 59.0 mi, 097° E
Haun Museum (Museum) — 61.6 mi, 197° S
Fick Fossil and History Museum (Museum) — 71.1 mi, 281° W
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 74.0 mi, 133° SE · 44k acres
Lincoln County Historical Society (Museum) — 76.1 mi, 084° E
Harlow Studio & Gallery (Gallery) — 76.2 mi, 084° E
Ford Lake (Viewpoint) — 79.6 mi, 194° S

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