Explore Holcomb, 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 Holcomb, 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 Holcomb.
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 | Holcomb |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Finney County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.986135 |
| Longitude | -100.989333 |
| Population | 2,245 |
| Density | 700.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67851 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Garden City |
| School District | Holcomb Unified School District 363 |
Holcomb sits amidst a vast, unyielding expanse of high plains where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 6.4 miles west of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 279°T), and is situated 14.8 miles east-northeast of Lakin. The horizon stretches thin and taut, broken only by the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator or the jagged line of cottonwoods that shadow the Arkansas River, which flows a mere mile from the center of the grid. During the golden hour, the light turns the dust of the fields into a fine, suspended amber, casting long, lean shadows that pull across the flat topography toward the distant rise of Pawnee Mound. Life here is defined by the wind, which possesses a constant, restless voice, scouring the landscape and reminding those who live in Holcomb that they are inhabitants of a wide-open theater where the weather is the primary actor.
Agricultural industry forms the bedrock of the local economy, with the surrounding fields producing wheat and corn that ripple like low-tide water under the relentless Kansas sun. The history of the region is etched into the soil, bearing the weight of a hard-won settlement that required both grit and a peculiar patience to endure. While the nearby Finney Game Refuge provides a sanctuary for native prairie wildlife and the distant White Woman Bottoms offers a subtle variation in the basin’s elevation, the rhythm of the day is dictated by the turning seasons of the harvest. A quiet, utilitarian beauty persists in the heavy machinery parked by the tracks and the steady, unadorned architecture, reflecting a culture that values the functional over the ornamental and the enduring strength of a life tied directly to the land.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Holcomb, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.986135, -100.989333. 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 Holcomb includes the ZIP code (67851), telephone area code (785), county seat of Finney County (Garden City), and school district assignment (Holcomb Unified School District 363).
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. |