Gaylord Kansas Map

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.

About This Gaylord Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gaylord, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.6439, -98.847578. 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 Gaylord includes the ZIP code (67638), telephone area code (785), county seat of Smith County (Smith Center), and school district assignment (Smith Center Unified School District 237).

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.