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Keats Kansas Map

Explore Keats, 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 Keats, Kansas

How to Use This Keats, Kansas Map

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

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	Keats
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Riley County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.223607
Longitude	-96.708617
Population	96
Density	80.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	66503
Area Code	913
County Seat	Manhattan
School District	Riley County Unified School District 378

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About Keats, Kansas

Keats is a locality in Riley County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 96. The population density is 80.4 people per km². Keats is located at 39.2236°N, 96.7086°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 66503.

Keats occupies a quiet expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut against the sky. It lies 7.8 miles west-northwest of Manhattan, KS (from Manhattan, KS: bearing 291°T), and is situated 9.8 miles northeast of Fort Riley. Kitten Creek traces a jagged, muddy path through the local terrain, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that lean into the prevailing wind. To the west, the distant rise of Saddle Back breaks the flatness of the prairie, a silhouette that darkens to a deep indigo during the long, bruised sunsets of autumn. The air here carries the dry, earthen scent of tallgrass, and the light at dusk possesses a singular, golden clarity that clarifies the edges of every fence post and grain silo. Five miles to the east, the waters of Tuttle Creek Lake offer a stillness that mirrors the vast, cloud-swept expanse of the sky above the Eureka Valley.

Keats emerged from the early ambitions of the railroad era, serving as a pulse point for the surrounding wheat fields and livestock operations that define the local economy. The rhythms of life in Keats remain tethered to the harvest cycle, a steady labor that echoes the endurance of the settlers who first broke this sod. Residents often seek the quietude of Washington Marlatt Memorial Park, finding in its managed wildness a respite from the mechanical hum of agricultural machinery. A sense of collective memory permeates the soil, colored by the resilience of those who survived the drought years and the relentless shifting of the prairie winds. Life in Keats moves with an unforced sincerity, governed by the turning seasons and the simple, persistent necessity of keeping the land productive under a wide, indifferent sun.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Washington Marlatt Memorial Park (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 091° E
Frank Anneberg Park (Local Park) — 4.6 mi, 121° SE
Tuttle Creek Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 4.9 mi, 004° N
Tuttle Creek Lake (Recreation Area) — 5.3 mi, 017° N
Tuttle Creek Dam and Reservoir Monument (Viewpoint) — 6.0 mi, 070° E
Optimist Park (Local Recreation) — 6.0 mi, 116° SE
Bill Snyder (Public Artwork) — 6.3 mi, 104° E
Tuttle Creek State Parks (State Park) — 6.4 mi, 071° E
Magic School (Historic Ruins) — 6.6 mi, 267° W
2008 Tornado Memorial (Monument) — 7.1 mi, 107° E
Class of 1908 Sundial (Monument) — 7.2 mi, 108° E
K-State Sesquicentennial Monument (Monument) — 7.3 mi, 109° E
Eisenhower Baseball Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.5 mi, 093° E
Arts & Memories Museum (Museum) — 8.1 mi, 309° NW
Greater Flint Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 146° SE
Pottawatomie State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 9.4 mi, 089° E
Kansas First Territorial Capitol (Museum) — 10.0 mi, 197° S
Locomotive 6072 (Attraction) — 10.7 mi, 198° S
Site of old Union Pacific Engine Shops (Attraction) — 14.0 mi, 206° SW
Site of Old Up Turntable and Roundhouse (Attraction) — 14.1 mi, 206° SW
Junction City Arts Council Gallery (Arts Centre) — 14.9 mi, 206° SW
C.L. Hoover Opera House (Theatre) — 15.0 mi, 206° SW
Geary County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 206° SW
Missile Silo Home (Attraction) — 20.0 mi, 091° E
Geary State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 23.3 mi, 199° S
Jeffery Energy Center Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 27.3 mi, 082° E
Great Plains Theatre (Cinema) — 34.2 mi, 232° SW
Post Office Oak Museum (Museum) — 40.6 mi, 163° S
Herington Historical Museum (Museum) — 40.7 mi, 198° S
Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 70.4 mi, 148° SE · 37k acres

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