Elmdale Kansas Map

About Elmdale, Kansas

Elmdale is a locality in Chase County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 40. The population density is 93.6 people per km². Elmdale is located at 38.3736°N, 96.6447°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Elmdale is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66850.

Elmdale occupies a quiet expanse of the Flint Hills, where the tallgrass prairie stretches toward a horizon defined by the persistent, restless motion of the wind. It lies 25.2 miles west of Emporia, KS (from Emporia, KS: bearing 265°T), and is situated 30.4 miles east of Hillsboro. Middle Creek carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the limestone-laced soil, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that offer the only shade against the unrelenting clarity of the Kansas light. To the west, the land rises in subtle, sweeping folds, while the distant silhouette of Texaco Hill marks the edge of the sky. Three miles away, the Chase State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area provides a sanctuary of quiet water and open brush, a place where the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the sharp call of a meadowlark or the dry rattle of grass in the heat.

Elmdale maintains a tempo dictated by the cycles of the earth and the memory of the soil, grounded in an economy that has always looked to the pasture and the plow. The history of the region is etched into the very masonry of the local limestone structures, which catch the honeyed glow of dusk and hold it long after the sun has slipped beneath the plains. Life here moves with the deliberate patience of a season, far removed from the clamor of larger centers, though the proximity of Lake Kahola, fifteen miles distant, offers a familiar, cooling presence to those who travel its edges. In the quiet streets of Elmdale, the work of the day is measured not in hours, but in the slow, steady persistence of those who have learned to live in rhythm with the high, wide sky.

About This Elmdale Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Elmdale, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.373626, -96.644732. 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 Elmdale includes the ZIP code (66850), telephone area code (913), county seat of Chase County (Cottonwood Falls), and school district assignment (Chase County Unified School District 284).

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.