Explore Humboldt, 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 Humboldt, 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 Humboldt.
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 | Humboldt |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Allen County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.810596 |
| Longitude | -95.436926 |
| Population | 1,847 |
| Density | 467.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 66748 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| County Seat | Iola |
| School District | Humboldt Unified School District 258 |
Humboldt spreads across the flat, expansive plains of Kansas, where the horizon stretches thin and pale against the weight of a wide, unblinking sky. It lies 48.7 miles northwest of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 305°T), and is situated 9.1 miles north of Chanute. The land here is defined by its quiet gravity, a expanse of prairie earth that holds the warmth of the sun long after the light has begun to fail. A mile away, the Neosho River carves a dark, serpentine path through the soil, its banks lined with the gnarled silhouettes of cottonwoods that lean toward the water as if listening to its steady, low-frequency hum. Beyond the immediate fields, the subtle rise of Rose Dome breaks the absolute flatness of the vista, serving as a distant, earthen anchor in a landscape that otherwise seems to dissolve into the hazy intersection of grass and air.
Humboldt carries the weight of a history built upon the stubborn resilience of the soil and the shifting fortunes of the regional economy. Long before the modern grain elevators rose to dominate the skyline, the area relied on the steady labor of those who recognized the fertility of the river valley, turning the prairie into a patchwork of productive fields. The pace of daily life is measured by the seasonal turn of the harvest and the persistent, restless wind that sweeps across the plains, rearranging the dust and cooling the summer afternoons. While the town maintains a modest scale, the legacy of its early settlers remains visible in the enduring architecture of its center, a place where the work of the past informs the quiet, deliberate rhythm of the present.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Humboldt, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.810596, -95.436926. 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 Humboldt includes the ZIP code (66748), telephone area code (913), county seat of Allen County (Iola), and school district assignment (Humboldt Unified School District 258).
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. |