Glen Elder Kansas Map

About Glen Elder, Kansas

Glen Elder is a locality in Mitchell County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 362. The population density is 320.6 people per km². Glen Elder is located at 39.4986°N, 98.3087°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Glen Elder is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67446.

Glen Elder occupies a broad expanse of high plains where the sky asserts a gravity of its own, pressing down upon the earth in shades of bruised indigo and pale, bleached gold. It lies 58.9 miles northwest of Salina, KS (from Salina, KS: bearing 321°T), and is situated 11.2 miles west-northwest of Beloit. The Solomon River carves a deliberate, serpentine path through the surrounding fields, its banks flanked by the silver-leafed cottonwoods that tremble even when the air seems perfectly still. To the west, the distant Blue Hills rise like a slumbering spine against the horizon, providing a permanent, muted boundary to the view. Waconda Lake spreads its wide, placid waters over the landscape, catching the sudden, sharp clarity of the afternoon sun and holding the reflection until the light fades into the deep, cooling shadows of the prairie.

Glen Elder State Park serves as the primary gateway to these waters, drawing those who seek the quietude of the tallgrass and the persistent, dry rustle of the wind through the fields. The economy remains rooted in the ancient, rhythmic cycle of the grain harvest, with silos standing as sentinels over the flat, productive earth that has sustained generations through years of both abundance and drought. Life in Glen Elder follows the slow, reliable pace of the agricultural seasons, where the local knowledge of soil and weather is passed down with a gravity that honors the labor of the past. Even as modern machinery hums across the fields, the fundamental character of the locality remains tethered to the river and the open expanse, marked by a sturdy, unadorned resilience that defines the daily lives of its people.

About This Glen Elder Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glen Elder, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.498621, -98.308667. 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 Glen Elder includes the ZIP code (67446), telephone area code (785), county seat of Mitchell County (Beloit), and school district assignment (Waconda Unified School District 272).

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.