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Johnson Kansas Map

Explore Johnson, 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.

Interactive Map of Johnson, Kansas

How to Use This Johnson, Kansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Johnson, 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.

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.

CityJohnson
StateKansas (KS)
CountyStanton County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude37.570572
Longitude-101.751005
Population1,464
DensityN/A /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code67855
Area Code785
County SeatJohnson City

About Johnson, Kansas

Johnson is a locality in Stanton County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,464. Johnson is located at 37.5706°N, 101.7510°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 67855.

Johnson occupies a vast, level expanse where the sky asserts its dominance over the horizon, turning the simple act of looking upward into a profound experience of depth and light. It lies 55.4 miles west-southwest of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 240°T), and is situated 21.7 miles west of Ulysses. The land remains an open, rhythmic expanse of prairie, marked by the sparse shadows of distant cottonwoods that cluster near the intermittent flow of Sand Arroyo Creek five miles away. During the golden hour, the low sun stretches the shadows of fence posts across the earth, imbuing the dry, golden grasses with a sudden, aching clarity that makes the silence of the plains feel heavy and deliberate. Even the distant, shimmering surface of Hoopengarner SW-1 Reservoir, tucked eighteen miles out in the quietude, does little to disrupt the prevailing sense that here, the world is measured by the steady, unyielding pressure of the wind against the skin.

Johnson serves as a quiet center for the surrounding agricultural life, where the local economy remains tethered to the cycles of wheat and the deep, persistent memory of the soil. The limestone courthouse stands as a grounding presence in the middle of the settlement, a physical reminder of the permanence that early settlers sought to impose upon the shifting, restless prairie. Life in Johnson follows the slow, necessary pace of the harvest, characterized by a stoic endurance that has defined the region since its founding. The people here understand that their prosperity is written in the seasonal colors of the fields, a cycle that persists regardless of the changing world beyond the county line, maintaining a character forged by the raw, unadorned reality of the high plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Cimarron National Grassland (National Grassland) — 21.2 mi, 206° SW · 109k acres
  • St Marys Park (Local Park) — 21.4 mi, 087° E
  • Russ Binney Park (Local Park) — 21.4 mi, 088° E
  • Burchfield Lake State Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.7 mi, 234° SW
  • Hamilton County Museum (Museum) — 28.3 mi, 360° N
  • Two Buttes Reservoir State Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 30.3 mi, 276° W
  • Cimarron Grassland and Santa Fe Trail overlook (Viewpoint) — 31.4 mi, 195° S
  • Hamilton State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 31.4 mi, 353° N
  • Hamilton State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 31.8 mi, 353° N
  • Kearny County Rodeo Grounds (Attraction) — 36.1 mi, 045° NE
  • ATSF Holley Depot (Attraction) — 38.9 mi, 329° NW
  • Comanche National Grassland (National Grassland) — 39.8 mi, 231° SW · 444k acres
  • Eight Mile Corner (Monument) — 43.0 mi, 202° S
  • Amache Museum (Museum) — 45.6 mi, 318° NW
  • Lesser-Prairie Chicken Habitat Zoological Area (National Conservation Area) — 46.5 mi, 223° SW · 9,303 acres
  • Herbert and Bonnie Clutter family memorial (Monument) — 50.5 mi, 055° NE
  • Lee Richardson Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 55.0 mi, 060° NE
  • Finney County Historical Museum (Museum) — 55.1 mi, 060° NE
  • C.J. "Buffalo" Jones Statue (Public Artwork) — 55.2 mi, 060° NE
  • Public Shooting Range (Attraction) — 58.0 mi, 250° W
  • CRIP Depot (Attraction) — 58.6 mi, 129° SE
  • Lamar Movie Theater (Cinema) — 59.3 mi, 307° NW
  • Horace Greeley Museum (Museum) — 62.2 mi, 000° N
  • Bent's New Fort (Historic Ruins) — 65.9 mi, 304° NW
  • Optima Lake (Recreation Area) — 67.7 mi, 154° SE
  • War Memorial (Monument) — 71.1 mi, 216° SW
  • Stauth Memorial Museum (Museum) — 71.7 mi, 088° E
  • John Martin Reservoir State Park (State Park) — 72.8 mi, 299° NW
  • Black Mesa State Park & Nature Preserve (State Park) — 78.7 mi, 232° SW

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About This Johnson Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Johnson, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.570572, -101.751005. 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 includes the ZIP code (67855), telephone area code (785), county seat of Stanton County (Johnson City), and school district assignment.

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.