Explore Holyrood, 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 Holyrood, 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 Holyrood.
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 | Holyrood |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Ellsworth County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.586955 |
| Longitude | -98.411178 |
| Population | 403 |
| Density | 361.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67450 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Ellsworth |
| School District | Central Plains Unified School District 112 |
Holyrood emerges from the vast, open expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches wide and unyielding, meeting a sky that shifts through infinite gradations of pale blue and bruised violet. It lies 24.5 miles northeast of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 51°T), and is situated 14.0 miles southwest of Ellsworth. Plum Creek traces a modest, winding path through the surrounding fields, its banks lined with the gnarled, silvered silhouettes of cottonwoods that catch the low light of dusk. The land here possesses a quiet, singular gravity, defined by the steady push of the wind against the tallgrass and the rhythmic geometry of agricultural furrows that carve the earth into a patchwork of deep ochre and emerald. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain holds a stillness that feels ancient, punctuated only by the distant, hazy suggestion of geological ridges that ripple across the plains like a held breath.
Holyrood carries the quiet weight of a legacy built upon the deep, fertile soil of the Great Plains, where the economy has long been tethered to the cycles of harvest and the persistence of local grain production. Families who have occupied this stretch of earth for generations navigate a pace set by the seasonal turning of the crops, maintaining a resilience that echoes the memories of a landscape shaped by the unforgiving dust of earlier decades. Residents looking toward the horizon might recall the proximity of the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, a vital sanctuary for migratory birds that underscores the delicate balance of the regional ecosystem, or perhaps the recreational pull of Kanopolis Lake, which offers a rare, expansive blue stillness in a region defined by land. Life here remains grounded in the tangible reality of the work at hand, marked by the simple, enduring architecture of grain elevators that serve as the vertical anchors of the skyline.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Holyrood, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.586955, -98.411178. 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 Holyrood includes the ZIP code (67450), telephone area code (785), county seat of Ellsworth County (Ellsworth), and school district assignment (Central Plains Unified School District 112).
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. |