Hazelton Kansas Map

About Hazelton, Kansas

Hazelton is a locality in Barber County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 82. The population density is 53.4 people per km². Hazelton is located at 37.0903°N, 98.3984°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hazelton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67061.

Hazelton occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon draws a taut line between the deep amber of the prairie and the pale, infinite sky. It lies 66.2 miles west-southwest of Haysville, KS (from Haysville, KS: bearing 241°T), and is situated 24.6 miles northeast of Alva. The earth here is defined by a slow, rhythmic patience, characterized by flat stretches of farmland that give way to the rugged, erratic shadows of Lone Tree Canyon just five miles to the west. Salty Creek cuts a narrow, winding path through the soil only a mile from the center of Hazelton, its banks lined with the skeletal, silvered limbs of cottonwoods that lean against the constant Kansas wind. In the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, heavy gold, catching the dust motes that hang suspended in the air and casting the distant, faint silhouette of Twin Peaks as a mere suggestion of stone against the darkening blue of the dusk.

Agriculture remains the singular, quiet pulse of Hazelton, a legacy of families who broke the sod and learned to read the sky for signs of rain or ruin. The economy is tethered to the slow turn of seasons, where the primary harvest dictates the tempo of commerce and the heavy, metallic scent of grain elevators defines the local atmosphere. Though life moves at the pace of a harvest cycle, residents find respite seventeen miles away at the Barber State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area, a place where the water settles into a glass-like stillness that mirrors the clouds. History in Hazelton is not written in monuments but in the sturdy, unadorned architecture of grain bins and the enduring resilience of those who remain, finding a spare, austere beauty in the way the prairie grass turns gray under the weight of a winter frost.

About This Hazelton Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hazelton, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.090303, -98.398407. 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 Hazelton includes the ZIP code (67061), telephone area code (785), county seat of Barber County (Medicine Lodge), and school district assignment (South Barber Unified School District 255).

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.