Explore Hardtner, 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 Hardtner, 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 Hardtner.
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 | Hardtner |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Barber County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.013917 |
| Longitude | -98.649528 |
| Population | 167 |
| Density | 234.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67057 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Medicine Lodge |
| School District | South Barber Unified School District 255 |
Hardtner defines the southern edge of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches flat and wide, broken only by the silver, winding thread of Driftwood Creek. It lies 80.8 miles west-southwest of Haysville, KS (from Haysville, KS: bearing 242°T), and is situated 14.5 miles north of Alva. The land here carries the weight of a quiet, sun-bleached intensity, where the light at dusk turns the tallgrass into a field of brittle gold and the air holds a persistent, dry clarity. Eight miles to the west, the earth drops away into the rugged, shadowed depths of Scott Canyon, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Twin Peaks marks the northern sky like a faint memory of higher ground. Cottonwoods cluster along the banks of Driftwood Creek, their leaves shivering in the constant, restless wind that shapes the character of the soil and the temperament of the people.
Hardtner remains a place built upon the labor of the wheat harvest, where the rhythms of the grain elevator and the seasonal turning of the fields dictate the pace of existence. The economy stays anchored to the earth, echoing a history of struggle against the elements that once defined the surrounding plains during the dust-heavy years of the past. Travelers might find a solitary respite at Hatfield Park, located fourteen miles away, where the stillness provides a measure of the solitude that permeates the surrounding landscape. In Hardtner, the work is honest and the life is lean, leaving the inhabitants to find their beauty in the vast, unshadowed sky and the steady, reliable grind of a life lived in harmony with the cycles of the prairie.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hardtner, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.013917, -98.649528. 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 Hardtner includes the ZIP code (67057), telephone area code (785), county seat of Barber County (Medicine Lodge), and school district assignment (South Barber Unified School District 255).
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. |