Garfield Kansas Map

About Garfield, Kansas

Garfield is a locality in Pawnee County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 151. The population density is 108.4 people per km². Garfield is located at 38.0778°N, 99.2448°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Garfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67529.

Garfield occupies a quiet expanse of the Kansas plains, where the horizon stretches thin and taut like a pulled thread across the sky. It lies 32.7 miles southwest of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 233°T), and is situated 10.7 miles southwest of Larned. The earth here is predominantly flat, defined by the slow, rhythmic persistence of winds that shape the tallgrass and carry the scent of dry soil across the fields. Only a mile away, the modest channel of Coon Creek cuts a subtle, meandering path through the landscape, its banks lined with the gray, skeletal limbs of cottonwoods that lean toward the water. Eight miles distant, the slight elevation of Jenkins Hill breaks the monotony of the plain, offering a faint, rounded interruption to the otherwise unbroken line of the earth. The light at dusk here possesses a particular quality, turning the dust of the air into a shimmering, amber veil that softens the hard edges of the silos and fence lines.

Garfield persists as a place forged by the steady, demanding cycles of agrarian life, where the economy remains tethered to the yield of the surrounding wheat fields. Families have worked this ground for generations, their livelihoods dictated by the temperamental rain and the relentless sun that bleaches the color from the wooden structures of the past. Beyond the immediate reach of the local grain elevators, the land opens toward the horizon, and those seeking a brief reprieve from the labor of the plains occasionally find it at Schnack-Lowery Park, ten miles away, or by visiting the shores of James Lake, which lies sixteen miles to the distance. Life in Garfield moves with the deliberate pace of the seasons, characterized by the hum of machinery during the harvest and the profound, heavy silence that settles over the fields when the work is done. It is a location of stark, functional beauty, where the weight of history is measured in the depth of the furrows and the endurance of those who remain.

About This Garfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Garfield, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.077792, -99.244832. 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 Garfield includes the ZIP code (67529), telephone area code (785), county seat of Pawnee County (Larned), and school district assignment (Fort Larned Unified School District 495).

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.