Explore Harper, 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 Harper, 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 Harper.
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 | Harper |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Harper County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.286686 |
| Longitude | -98.025894 |
| Population | 1,313 |
| Density | 312.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67058 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Anthony |
| School District | Chaparral Schools Unified School District 361 |
Harper stretches across a vast, flat expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon seems to pull the sky down toward the earth in a thin, shimmering line. It lies 41.6 miles west-southwest of Haysville, KS (from Haysville, KS: bearing 243°T), and is situated 9.2 miles north of Anthony. The land here is defined by its openness, a wide-reaching prairie where the wind dictates the movement of the tall grasses and the occasional line of cottonwoods that mark the path of Sand Creek. Light behaves differently in Harper, washing over the fields in long, honeyed strokes during the late afternoon that turn the stubble of harvested wheat into a field of burnished copper. Beyond the immediate reach of the town, the terrain remains unyielding and expansive, occasionally broken by the gentle rise of the land or the quiet, glassy surface of Anthony Municipal Lake, which sits far enough away to mirror only the clouds and the hawks circling in the heat.
Harper grew from the steady, rhythmic labor of those who broke the soil to plant the grains that still define the regional economy today. The limestone courthouse stands as a central figure in the local landscape, its sturdy, pale walls reflecting a history built on agrarian perseverance and the quiet resilience of a life lived close to the cycles of the seasons. Everyday existence in Harper moves with a deliberate pace, punctuated by the seasonal machinery of harvest and the collective gathering of neighbors who understand the weight of the wind and the value of a steady crop. It is a place where the architecture of the past informs the work of the present, maintaining a quiet dignity that refuses to be hurried by the frantic signals of the wider world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Harper, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.286686, -98.025894. 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 Harper includes the ZIP code (67058), telephone area code (785), county seat of Harper County (Anthony), and school district assignment (Chaparral Schools Unified School District 361).
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. |