Horace Kansas Map

About Horace, Kansas

Horace is a locality in Greeley County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 102. The population density is 160.7 people per km². Horace is located at 38.4764°N, 101.7907°W. It observes the Mountain Time (America/Denver) timezone. Horace is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67879.

Horace sits exposed upon the high, unyielding expanse of the western plains, where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth in a thin, shimmering line. It lies 60.8 miles northwest of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 305°T), and is situated 52.4 miles east-northeast of Lamar. The land around Horace possesses a spare, skeletal beauty, defined by the relentless passage of wind across fields of dry stubble and the occasional, stunted cottonwood that marks the path of White Woman Creek just a mile from the center. Light here does not merely fall; it scours the landscape, bleaching the gray soil and turning the summer stalks into brittle, golden wire that rattles in the persistent gusts. Twenty-four miles away, the distant silhouette of Rock Hill offers the only fracture in an otherwise seamless, flat geography, a faint bruised thumbprint against the expanse of the western sky.

Horace maintains a quiet, tempered existence rooted in the labor of the soil, a place where the economy remains bound to the cycles of harvest and the patient turning of the seasons. The history of the region lingers in the sparse architecture and the memory of lean years, persisting with a gravity that feels as heavy as the dark, mineral-rich earth itself. For those seeking the solitude of the prairie, the Greeley Wildlife Area provides a quiet refuge twelve miles out, while the distant, calm surface of Lake Devore serves as a rare, cool anchor twenty-one miles to the north. Life in Horace follows the rhythm of the rail and the silo, a steady, unadorned pulse that values endurance over ornament, keeping a steady watch over the vast, open silence of the plains.

About This Horace Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Horace, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.476405, -101.790729. 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 Horace includes the ZIP code (67879), telephone area code (785), county seat of Greeley County (Tribune), and school district assignment (Greeley County Schools Unified School District 200).

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.