Hudson Kansas Map

About Hudson, Kansas

Hudson is a locality in Stafford County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 95. The population density is 293.4 people per km². Hudson is located at 38.1056°N, 98.6601°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Hudson is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67545.

Hudson rises from the flat, expansive plains like a quiet thought held between the earth and the vast, unobstructed sky. It lies 18.8 miles south-southeast of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 162°T), and is situated 17.8 miles south-southwest of Ellinwood. The horizon stretches thin and taut, broken only by the rhythmic sway of wheat and the occasional, skeletal silhouette of a cottonwood tracing the path of Rattlesnake Creek, which meanders just a mile from the center. To the west, the distant profile of Pilot Knob marks the edge of the world, a faint shadow that anchors the landscape against the shifting light of dusk. The air here holds a particular, dry clarity, cooling rapidly as the sun slips behind the grain elevators, leaving the fields bathed in a bruised, amber glow that makes the tallgrass appear to shiver in the stillness.

Hudson maintains a steady, deliberate pace, anchored by an economy that remains tethered to the cycles of the soil and the endurance of the harvest. The proximity of the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge—a mere six miles away—serves as a reminder of the wilder, marshy heritage of the region, where the migration of birds often dictates the changing of the seasons more effectively than any calendar. Life here is measured in the persistence of local families and the quiet maintenance of the land, with the nearby Little Salt Marsh providing a rare, brackish contrast to the surrounding farmland. In the evening, the wind carries the faint, metallic scent of the tracks and the dust of the fields, binding the inhabitants to a history that is less about grand events and more about the quiet, daily labor of holding ground in the center of the continent.

About This Hudson Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hudson, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.105569, -98.660083. 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 Hudson includes the ZIP code (67545), telephone area code (785), county seat of Stafford County (St. John), and school district assignment (St. John-Hudson Unified School District 350).

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.