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Galatia Kansas Map

Explore Galatia, 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 Galatia, Kansas

How to Use This Galatia, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	38.641679
Longitude	-98.958702
Population	45
Density	48.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67565
Area Code	785
County Seat	Great Bend
School District	Hoisington Unified School District 431

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About Galatia, Kansas

Galatia is a locality in Barton County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 45. The population density is 48.9 people per km². Galatia is located at 38.6417°N, 98.9587°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Galatia is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67565.

Galatia occupies a flat, expansive reach of the high plains where the sky asserts itself with a heavy, blue-white dominance. It lies 21.8 miles north-northwest of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 331°T), and is situated 18.3 miles south-southwest of Russell. The horizon line remains unbroken by anything but the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator or the thin, skeletal reach of cottonwoods huddled along the banks of Landon Creek. Here, the land is a study in subtle shifts of color, moving from the pale, dusty tan of harvested stubble to the deep, resonant gold of the late afternoon sun. A traveler crossing these plains finds that the wind serves as the primary surveyor of the landscape, constantly rearranging the fine silt and pressing against the tallgrass that persists in the few unplowed corners of the county.

Galatia persists as a quiet monument to the era of rail-side settlement, when the rhythm of the harvest dictated the pulse of the local economy. Though the pace of life has slowed since the early decades of the twentieth century, the town remains tethered to the cycles of the wheat fields that stretch out in every direction. Residents often look toward the regional landmarks for a sense of scale, knowing that the quiet waters of Barton Lake lie sixteen miles to the southeast and the open expanses of Noisington Bicentennial Park wait twelve miles away. The character of the place is defined by this persistent, agrarian patience, where the weight of history is felt not in monuments, but in the enduring, calloused work of those who still tend the soil.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Noisington Bicentennial Park (Local Park) — 12.4 mi, 132° SE
Cheyenne Bottoms Fee (Conservation Area) — 14.3 mi, 136° SE
Grant Memorial (Public Artwork) — 17.2 mi, 325° NW
Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.5 mi, 137° SE
Memorial Park (Local Park) — 17.9 mi, 020° N
Expo Center (Attraction) — 20.2 mi, 165° S
Kansas Oil and Gas Museum (Museum) — 20.8 mi, 158° S
Great Bend Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 21.3 mi, 151° SE
Wilson Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 24.8 mi, 033° NE
Kansas Wildlife and Parks Area #1 (Local Recreation) — 24.9 mi, 037° NE
Wilson Lake (Recreation Area) — 26.4 mi, 038° NE
Wilson Opera House (Theatre) — 29.0 mi, 064° NE
World's Largest Czech Egg (Attraction) — 29.1 mi, 064° NE
Wilson State Park (State Park) — 30.2 mi, 053° NE
Historic Marker: Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (Attraction) — 34.6 mi, 250° W
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 36.6 mi, 038° NE
Roy and Clara Miller's Park (Attraction) — 36.7 mi, 038° NE
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 37.0 mi, 144° SE · 44k acres
Christ Pilot Me Hill (Monument) — 39.1 mi, 251° W
Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 41.4 mi, 283° W
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 43.0 mi, 285° W
Coronado-Quivira Museum (Museum) — 45.7 mi, 116° SE
Meades Ranch Triangulation Station (Monument) — 45.9 mi, 028° NE
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ks (National Wildlife Refuge) — 46.2 mi, 151° SE · 232 acres
Culbertson Auditorium (Theatre) — 50.1 mi, 126° SE
Lincoln County Historical Society (Museum) — 51.5 mi, 057° NE
Harlow Studio & Gallery (Gallery) — 51.6 mi, 057° NE
Crispin’s Drug Store Museum (Museum) — 51.7 mi, 058° NE
Frontier in Lincoln County (Monument) — 53.5 mi, 060° NE
Carey Dome (Cinema) — 68.9 mi, 125° SE

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