Explore Healy, 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 Healy, 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 Healy.
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 | Healy |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Lane County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.600016 |
| Longitude | -100.617087 |
| Population | 195 |
| Density | 21.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 67850 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Dighton |
| School District | Healy Public Schools Unified School District 468 |
Healy holds the wide, unyielding expanse of the high plains in a quiet, sun-bleached grip where the horizon stretches thin as a wire against the sky. It lies 45.6 miles north-northeast of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 18°T), and is situated 17.7 miles east-northeast of Scott City. The earth here is a flat, dusty table of wheat and sorghum, interrupted only by the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator rising like a sentinel above the fields. A mile away, the North Fork Middle Fork Walnut Creek traces a shallow, intermittent line through the soil, its banks lined with the gnarled, pale trunks of cottonwoods that shiver in the constant, restless wind. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Devils Backbone shadows the far edge of the sky, serving as a distant reminder of the earth’s ancient, uneven bones beneath the soft topsoil. The light at dusk settles over Healy in long, bruised purples and golds, turning the vast agricultural grid into a study of geometry and shadow that feels both infinite and deeply solitary.
Healy emerged from the late nineteenth-century push of the frontier, its rhythm dictated by the cyclical demands of the harvest and the stubborn persistence of dryland farming. The local economy remains anchored to the soil, with the daily pulse of the grain trade and the quiet maintenance of heavy machinery defining the labor of the inhabitants. Beyond the immediate fields, the Garton Wildlife Area offers a patch of protected wildness where the native grasses reclaim the silence, while Lane County State Lake provides a rare, still mirror of water for those seeking a reprieve from the relentless dry air. Life in Healy moves with the deliberate, measured pace of a place that understands the weight of a drought and the sudden, frantic relief of a wet season. It is a landscape of endurance, where the history of the plains is written in the steel of rusted plows and the enduring, clear-eyed resilience of those who remain to watch the storms roll in from the west.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Healy, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.600016, -100.617087. 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 Healy includes the ZIP code (67850), telephone area code (785), county seat of Lane County (Dighton), and school district assignment (Healy Public Schools Unified School District 468).
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. |