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Gove City Kansas Map

Explore Gove City, 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 Gove City, Kansas

How to Use This Gove City, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	38.9595
Longitude	-100.4871
Population	80
Density	127.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67736
Area Code	785
County Seat	Gove City
School District	Wheatland Unified School District 292

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About Gove City, Kansas

Gove City is a locality in Gove County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 80. The population density is 127.1 people per km². Gove City is located at 38.9595°N, 100.4871°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gove City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67736.

Gove City sits amidst a vast expanse of high plains where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth. It lies 62.6 miles west of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 275°T), and is situated 23.5 miles east-southeast of Oakley. Hackberry Creek cuts a shallow, winding path through the dry terrain, its banks lined with the gnarled skeletons of cottonwoods that lean away from the constant, scouring wind. The landscape is defined by this quiet austerity, a place where the sun bleaches the grasses to a pale straw color and the shadows stretch long and thin across the flat expanse as evening approaches. Far to the west, the jagged, distant silhouette of Devils Backbone provides the only break in an otherwise uninterrupted line of sight. The air here holds a sharp, clean dryness, carrying the scent of dust and cured stalks, while the quality of light at dusk turns the wide prairie into a deep, bruised violet before the stars emerge in sudden, cold clarity.

Gove City maintains its rhythm through the seasons of the wheat harvest and the slow, deliberate work of the local cattle trade. The economy remains tethered to the soil, a legacy of families who carved their lives out of this challenging ground and left their mark in the limestone foundations of the older structures. Eighteen miles away, the geological formations of Chalk Bluffs remain a silent witness to the deep time of the region, offering a stark contrast to the cultivated fields that surround the local grid. Life in Gove City moves with the measured pace of those who understand the temperament of the plains, where the success of a year is measured in inches of rain and the yield of the grain. It is a quiet existence, marked by the steady labor of the fields and a resilience born from generations of weathering the immense, open space that defines the character of the land.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Chalk Bluffs (Conservation Area) — 18.2 mi, 248° W
Castle Rock (Attraction) — 18.4 mi, 112° E
Sheridan Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 19.4 mi, 052° NE
Logan County World War Memorial (Monument) — 22.8 mi, 301° NW
Fick Fossil and History Museum (Museum) — 23.2 mi, 300° NW
Buffalo Bill (Public Artwork) — 23.5 mi, 300° NW
Jerusalem Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 23.9 mi, 261° W
Scott State Park (State Park) — 29.7 mi, 231° SW
Sheridan State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 30.6 mi, 027° NE
Battle of Punished Woman's Fork (Monument) — 32.2 mi, 228° SW
Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 33.6 mi, 110° E
Butterfield Trail Museum (Museum) — 37.4 mi, 265° W
Kansas Historical Marker: Homestead of a Genius (Attraction) — 38.4 mi, 156° SE
Cedar Bluff Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 39.5 mi, 107° E
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 39.6 mi, 109° E
Palmer Park (Local Park) — 39.8 mi, 214° SW
Logan State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 40.1 mi, 268° W
El Quartelejo Museum (Museum) — 40.3 mi, 215° SW
Prairie Museum of Art and History (Museum) — 41.2 mi, 314° NW
Christ Pilot Me Hill (Monument) — 57.5 mi, 127° SE
Sappa Park (Local Recreation) — 60.1 mi, 359° N
Historic Marker: Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (Attraction) — 60.6 mi, 124° SE
Keith Sebelius Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 63.6 mi, 025° NE
Haun Museum (Museum) — 68.4 mi, 152° SE
World's Largest Easel (Attraction) — 70.3 mi, 292° W
Lee Richardson Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 72.1 mi, 197° S
Seoul Canal Pump (Viewpoint) — 78.3 mi, 179° S

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