Kiowa Kansas Map

About Kiowa, Kansas

Kiowa is a locality in Barber County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 902. The population density is 314.3 people per km². Kiowa is located at 37.0172°N, 98.4854°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Kiowa is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67070.

Kiowa stretches across a vast expanse of high-plains prairie, where the horizon serves as a flat, relentless line that defines the scale of the sky. It lies 72.9 miles west-southwest of Haysville, KS (from Haysville, KS: bearing 239°T), and is situated 17.8 miles northeast of Alva. The landscape shifts from open farmland to the rugged, red-earth topography of Lone Tree Canyon, which cuts a sharp, jagged scar through the earth just two miles away. Cottonwood trees cluster in the low-lying moisture near the Medicine Lodge River, their leaves vibrating against the stillness of the afternoon air. At the edges of the day, light pools in the hollows of the soil, turning the dust a soft, bruised violet that clings to the fences and the weathered siding of grain elevators. Beyond the immediate fields, the far-off presence of Twin Peaks provides a singular, distant anchor for the eye in a land otherwise composed of infinite, subtle repetitions.

Kiowa traces its roots to the early expansion of the railroad, which brought a frantic, metal-tracked industry to these quiet plains, though the rhythm of life today is dictated more by the cycles of wheat and the steady, patient work of the local agricultural economy. The memory of the Dust Bowl remains a quiet ghost here, influencing the way residents regard the soil and the wind that scours the earth with persistent, dry intensity. A short drive away, the Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge offers a sanctuary for migratory birds, a stark contrast to the industrious, earth-bound labor of the surrounding farms. While the modern pace is measured by the turning of heavy machinery and the seasonal harvest, the town maintains a stark, unadorned dignity, anchored by the quietude of Spicer Lake and the enduring, sun-bleached character of the Kansas plains.

About This Kiowa Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Kiowa, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.017249, -98.485354. 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 Kiowa includes the ZIP code (67070), telephone area code (785), county seat of Barber County (Medicine Lodge), and school district assignment (South Barber Unified School District 255).

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.