Gridley Kansas Map

About Gridley, Kansas

Gridley is a locality in Coffey County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 313. The population density is 282.4 people per km². Gridley is located at 38.0978°N, 95.8836°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Gridley is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66852.

Gridley occupies a modest expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pulling the eye toward a sky that dominates the architecture of the land. It lies 26.6 miles southeast of Emporia, KS (from Emporia, KS: bearing 143°T), and is situated 10.2 miles southwest of Burlington. The terrain around Gridley is defined by the steady, rhythmic persistence of tallgrass prairie, punctuated by the occasional silhouette of cottonwoods marking the path of Dinner Creek as it carves a shallow, verdant incision into the earth. Four miles to the west, the quiet surface of Birk Lake reflects the shifting temperaments of the clouds, while the distant, low rise of Jackrabbit Hill provides the only meaningful interruption to an otherwise level sweep of agriculture. In the late afternoon, the light here loses its harshness, turning the dry grasses to a shade of pale copper and casting long, thin shadows that seem to anchor the landscape to its deep, dark soil.

Agriculture serves as the slow, beating pulse of Gridley, where the industry of sowing and harvest dictates the cadence of the seasons and the movement of heavy machinery along narrow, straight roads. The history of the area is not written in grand monuments but in the sturdy endurance of family homesteads and the collective memory of a landscape that demands patience from those who work it. Residents often look toward the John Redmond Reservoir for recreation, finding a rare, expansive stillness in the water that contrasts with the relentless, productive energy of the surrounding fields. Life in Gridley moves with an unpretentious clarity, favoring the quiet reliability of neighborly exchange and the profound, open silence that settles over the plains once the sun dips below the far edge of the wheat.

About This Gridley Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gridley, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.097803, -95.8836. 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 Gridley includes the ZIP code (66852), telephone area code (913), county seat of Coffey County (Burlington), and school district assignment (Leroy-Gridley Unified School District 245).

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.