Fontana Kansas Map

About Fontana, Kansas

Fontana is a locality in Miami County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 210. The population density is 96.9 people per km². Fontana is located at 38.4259°N, 94.8383°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Fontana is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66026.

Fontana rests upon a broad expanse of Kansas prairie, where the horizon stretches thin and flat beneath a sky that claims the better part of the view. It lies 26.7 miles east-southeast of Ottawa, KS (from Ottawa, KS: bearing 119°T), and is situated 7.8 miles southeast of Osawatomie. The land here is defined by the steady, persistent roll of earth that yields to the occasional shade of cottonwoods marking the path of Middle Creek, which carves a modest, quiet channel through the soil only a mile away. When the light of late afternoon slants low, it turns the tallgrass to a pale, burnished bronze, casting long shadows that reach toward the distant rise of Graveyard Mound. To the north, the waters of Hunters Lake hold the stillness of the afternoon, while the nearby Miami State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area offers a sanctuary of brush and timber where the wind moves through the leaves with a dry, rhythmic sound.

Fontana carries the quiet weight of a place built on the promise of the soil, its history rooted in the cycles of grain and the labor of those who first broke the sod. The local economy remains anchored to the rhythms of agriculture, a life governed by the arrival of the harvest and the patient turning of the seasons. There is a spare, functional grace to the buildings that remain, reflecting a time when the railroad dictated the pulse of commerce and the movement of goods across the plains. Residents here move with a measured pace, accustomed to the wide silence of the landscape and the way the weather dictates the urgency of any given day. In the stillness of the evening, the air carries the faint, clean scent of turned earth, a reminder of the quiet, enduring character that defines the daily existence of Fontana.

About This Fontana Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fontana, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.425851, -94.838295. 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 Fontana includes the ZIP code (66026), telephone area code (913), county seat of Miami County (Paola), and school district assignment (Prairie View Unified School District 362).

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.