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Ensign Kansas Map

Explore Ensign, 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 Ensign, Kansas

How to Use This Ensign, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	37.6528
Longitude	-100.233753
Population	166
Density	220.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67841
Area Code	785
County Seat	Cimarron
School District	Cimarron-Ensign Unified School District 102

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About Ensign, Kansas

Ensign is a locality in Gray County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 166. The population density is 220.3 people per km². Ensign is located at 37.6528°N, 100.2338°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ensign is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67841.

Ensign occupies a vast, level expanse of the high plains where the sky asserts a dominance over the earth, stretching in an unbroken, pale blue arc from one horizon to the next. It lies 13.7 miles west-southwest of Dodge City, KS (from Dodge City, KS: bearing 240°T), and is situated 41.3 miles east-southeast of Garden City. The landscape around Ensign remains defined by the relentless, rhythmic sweep of the wind across wheat fields that turn from emerald to a burnished, brittle gold under the progression of the seasons. Cottonwoods gather in the low-lying moisture near Mulberry Creek, their leaves shimmering with a metallic, silver underside that signals the approach of a storm long before the first clouds gather. In the quiet hours of dusk, the light loses its harshness, casting long, thin shadows that seem to anchor the scattered buildings to the soil, while the distant, flat silhouette of Boot Hill provides the only interruption to an otherwise infinite, horizontal world.

Agriculture dictates the tempo of existence here, as the economy relies upon the heavy, seasonal labor of the harvest and the patient management of grain silos that rise like sentinels above the prairie. Life in Ensign moves with the deliberate, unadorned efficiency of those who understand the temperamental nature of the weather, finding a modest comfort in the predictability of the crop cycles. While the residents might occasionally travel toward Ford County Lake for recreation or seek the open spaces of Kiwanis Park, the core of their daily experience is tied to the local roads and the enduring legacy of farming families who settled this territory generations ago. There is a profound, stoic beauty in the way the town persists against the elements, maintaining a steady, industrious character that values the weight of a handshake and the resilience required to thrive in a landscape that demands so much from its inhabitants.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Santa Fe Trail Remains Lookout (Attraction) — 9.7 mi, 012° N
Stauth Memorial Museum (Museum) — 12.1 mi, 251° W
Youth Complex (Local Recreation) — 12.5 mi, 055° NE
Wright Park (Local Park) — 13.0 mi, 060° NE
Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame and Gunfighters Wax Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 059° NE
Santa Fe 1139 Steam Locomotive (Attraction) — 13.5 mi, 059° NE
Boot Hill Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 059° NE
Doc Holliday Statue (Public Artwork) — 13.5 mi, 059° NE
ATSF Dodge City Depot (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 060° NE
Santa Fe Caboose (Attraction) — 13.8 mi, 060° NE
Legends Park (Local Park) — 14.6 mi, 050° NE
B&B Dodge City Village 8 (Cinema) — 14.6 mi, 054° NE
Saint Mary Of The Plains Park (Local Recreation) — 14.7 mi, 054° NE
Seoul Canal Pump (Viewpoint) — 17.1 mi, 315° NW
Ford State Fishing Lake and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 20.1 mi, 057° NE
Clark State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 30.1 mi, 125° SE
Big Basin Prairie Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 30.9 mi, 155° SE
Concannon State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 33.1 mi, 328° NW
Meade State Park (State Park) — 35.0 mi, 199° S
Haun Museum (Museum) — 35.1 mi, 032° NE
Finney County Historical Museum (Museum) — 40.8 mi, 302° NW
Lee Richardson Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 40.8 mi, 302° NW
Herbert and Bonnie Clutter family memorial (Monument) — 47.5 mi, 300° NW
Greensburg Big Well Country (Monument) — 50.0 mi, 093° E
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 56.4 mi, 118° SE
Cimarron National Grassland (National Grassland) — 75.4 mi, 249° W · 109k acres
Balko School (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 77.7 mi, 203° SW
Scott State Park (State Park) — 78.5 mi, 332° NW

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