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Gaylord Kansas Map

Explore Gaylord, 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 Gaylord, Kansas

How to Use This Gaylord, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	39.6439
Longitude	-98.847578
Population	87
Density	131.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67638
Area Code	785
County Seat	Smith Center
School District	Smith Center Unified School District 237

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About Gaylord, Kansas

Gaylord is a locality in Smith County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 87. The population density is 131.7 people per km². Gaylord is located at 39.6439°N, 98.8476°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gaylord is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67638.

Gaylord occupies a quiet expanse of the high plains where the sky holds more weight than the earth beneath it. It lies 58.7 miles north-northeast of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 26°T), and is situated 26.5 miles east-southeast of Phillipsburg. Beaver Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the terrain, its banks lined with the gnarled, silvered silhouettes of cottonwoods that shiver in the constant, restless wind. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Blue Hills marks the limit of the horizon, a distant reminder of the earth’s ancient folding against the vast, flat tableland. The light here arrives with a stark clarity, bleaching the dry grasses to a pale straw color and casting long, indigo shadows that stretch across the fields as the sun dips toward the edge of the world.

Gaylord remains a place defined by the stubborn persistence of agriculture, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pulse of the day. The local economy stays rooted in the soil, echoing a history of homesteading that persists in the austere, functional architecture and the wide, empty stretches of cultivated land. Those seeking the quietude of open water often look fifteen miles toward Kirwin Reservoir, a sanctuary for migratory birds and the primary break in the monotony of the surrounding wheat-horizon plains. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, indifferent to the frantic noise of distant centers, finding its purpose instead in the seasonal turning of the crop and the enduring, silent company of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Statue of Liberty Replica (Monument) — 3.5 mi, 109° E
Walronds Stockade (Monument) — 10.6 mi, 129° SE
Kirwin Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 14.7 mi, 273° W
Geodetic Center of North America (Monument) — 15.6 mi, 148° SE
Glen Elder Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 18.3 mi, 125° SE
Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States (Attraction) — 19.1 mi, 048° NE
Francis Wachs Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.7 mi, 328° NW
Glen Elder Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 22.6 mi, 118° SE
World's Largest Ball of Sisal Twine (Attraction) — 23.9 mi, 113° SE
Majestic Theatre (Cinema) — 26.4 mi, 287° W
Glen Elder State Park (State Park) — 26.5 mi, 108° E
Waconda Springs Replica (Attraction) — 28.5 mi, 109° E
Bison Statue (Public Artwork) — 29.5 mi, 108° E
Rooks State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 29.9 mi, 237° SW
Franklin County Museum (Museum) — 32.2 mi, 350° N
Harlan County Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 33.1 mi, 325° NW
Harlan County Lake (Recreation Area) — 34.0 mi, 325° NW
Webster State Park (State Park) — 34.6 mi, 244° SW
Guide Rock Diverson Dam (State Recreation Area) — 37.4 mi, 040° NE
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 43.8 mi, 158° S
Roy and Clara Miller's Park (Attraction) — 43.8 mi, 157° SE
Nuckolls County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 49.1 mi, 058° NE
Lincoln County Historical Society (Museum) — 55.9 mi, 138° SE
Harlow Studio & Gallery (Gallery) — 56.0 mi, 138° SE
Crispin’s Drug Store Museum (Museum) — 56.1 mi, 138° SE
Wilson Opera House (Theatre) — 60.1 mi, 160° S
Brown Grand Opera House (Theatre) — 63.2 mi, 094° E
Amphitheatre (Arts Centre) — 66.0 mi, 078° E
Hall County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 76.9 mi, 006° N · 642 acres

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