Explore Johnson City, 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 Johnson City, 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 Johnson City.
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 | Johnson City |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Stanton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.5703 |
| Longitude | -101.7447 |
| Population | 1,464 |
| Density | 263.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67855 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Johnson City |
| School District | Stanton County Unified School District 452 |
Johnson City occupies a vast, level expanse of high plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pinned to the earth by the weight of a monumental sky. It lies 55.1 miles west-southwest of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 240°T), and is situated 21.3 miles west of Ulysses. The landscape remains defined by the relentless, scouring wind that shapes the wheat fields into rippling amber seas, interrupted only by the occasional silhouette of a solitary cottonwood marking the path of Sand Arroyo Creek. At dusk, the light loses its harshness, turning the gray-brown soil into a bruised violet that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has slipped beneath the western edge of the world. Far from the damp humidity of lower elevations, the air here is dry and brittle, carrying the faint, metallic scent of iron and dormant earth.
Johnson City serves as a quiet anchor for the surrounding agricultural economy, where the rhythm of life is dictated by the slow maturation of grain and the demands of the harvest. The limestone courthouse stands as a sturdy architectural center, a physical manifestation of a resilience forged during the years when the dust storms threatened to erase the pioneers’ efforts entirely. While the Hoopengarner SW-1 Reservoir sits quietly eighteen miles away, the daily existence of Johnson City is far more concerned with the subtle cycles of the dry land and the intricate, mechanical hum of farm equipment. People here carry a deliberate stillness, moving through their chores with the unhurried precision of those who understand that in this corner of the plains, the land asks for patience before it provides its yield.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Johnson City, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.5703, -101.7447. 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 Johnson City includes the ZIP code (67855), telephone area code (785), county seat of Stanton County (Johnson City), and school district assignment (Stanton County Unified School District 452).
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. |