Explore Hope, 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 Hope, 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 Hope.
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 | Hope |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Dickinson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.690284 |
| Longitude | -97.076684 |
| Population | 317 |
| Density | 314.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67451 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Abilene |
| School District | Rural Vista Unified School District 481 |
Hope emerges from the vast Kansas plains as a quiet grid of streets defined by the relentless, sweeping movement of the prairie wind. It lies 26.8 miles south-southwest of Junction City, KS (from Junction City, KS: bearing 210°T), and is situated 7.4 miles west of Herington. The horizon stretches wide and unobstructed, save for the distant, hazy suggestion of Grant Ridge pressing against the sky far to the west. Near the edge of the settlement, the water of West Branch Lyon Creek traces a thin, verdant line through the earth, nourishing the occasional cottonwood that breaks the flatness of the terrain. The quality of light here is expansive and unsparing, bleaching the fields to a pale straw color by mid-summer and casting long, sharp shadows that emphasize the subtle, rhythmic swells of the land.
Agriculture remains the pulse of Hope, with the golden reach of wheat fields providing the visual and economic foundation for those who work the soil. Local life is tethered to the seasons, a slow and deliberate cycle that reflects the endurance of a landscape once shaped by the harsh lessons of the Dust Bowl. Residents often look toward the quiet expanse of Lake Herington for recreation, or travel toward the curated grounds of Terrace Lane Farm to observe the stillness of the native grasses. The architecture, composed of sturdy brick and weathered wood, retains a modest dignity, standing as a reminder of the generations who settled this region to cultivate a future from the deep, stubborn fiber of the prairie.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hope, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.690284, -97.076684. 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 Hope includes the ZIP code (67451), telephone area code (785), county seat of Dickinson County (Abilene), and school district assignment (Rural Vista Unified School District 481).
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. |