Explore Hanover, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Hanover, 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 Hanover.
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 | Hanover |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Washington County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.893892 |
| Longitude | -96.87947 |
| Population | 690 |
| Density | 444.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 66945 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| County Seat | Washington |
| School District | Barnes Unified School District 223 |
Hanover emerges from the vast, wheat-horizon plains as a quiet intersection of sky and soil, where the wind possesses a singular, restless agency. It lies 51.7 miles north-northwest of Manhattan, KS (from Manhattan, KS: bearing 342°T), and is situated 12.8 miles west-northwest of Marysville. The landscape surrounding Hanover stretches in broad, unadorned gestures, defined by the persistent, rhythmic swaying of prairie grasses and the occasional, gnarled silhouette of a cottonwood tracing the path of the Little Blue River. Here, the light of late afternoon pours over the earth with a heavy, golden density, turning the fields into a sea of amber that seems to breathe against the low-slung horizon. While Indian Mound waits in the distant, hazy blue of the periphery, the immediate terrain remains grounded, favoring the subtle, tectonic patience of the Great Plains over the dramatic upheaval of ranges.
History lingers in the deliberate arrangement of the streets, reflecting an era when the pulse of the nation beat in the steady arrival of iron rails and the breaking of new ground. The economy remains anchored to the fertility of the loam, a cycle of sowing and harvest that dictates the temperament of the seasons, while the nearby Diamond Lake Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary where the silence is broken only by the migratory flight of birds. Hanover carries its years with a sturdy, utilitarian grace, preferring the honest weight of local commerce to the fleeting noise of the modern world. Life moves with the deliberate pace of a pendulum, a steady, unwavering rhythm that honors the endurance of those who first turned this stubborn, productive earth.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hanover, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.893892, -96.87947. 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 Hanover includes the ZIP code (66945), telephone area code (913), county seat of Washington County (Washington), and school district assignment (Barnes Unified School District 223).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |