La Cygne Kansas Map
Explore La Cygne, 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 La Cygne, Kansas
How to Use This La Cygne, Kansas Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for La Cygne, 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 La Cygne.
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 | La Cygne |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Linn County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.350021 |
| Longitude | -94.761348 |
| Population | 1,050 |
| Density | 265.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 66040 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| County Seat | Mound City |
| School District | Prairie View Unified School District 362 |
About La Cygne, Kansas
La Cygne is a locality in Linn County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,050. The population density is 265.3 people per km². La Cygne is located at 38.3500°N, 94.7613°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. La Cygne is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66040.La Cygne emerges from the flat, stubborn earth of eastern Kansas as a gathering of brick and timber held fast against the wide, unblinking sky. It lies 33.0 miles east-southeast of Ottawa, KS (from Ottawa, KS: bearing 124°T), and is situated 16.6 miles south-southeast of Paola. The horizon pulls the eye outward, past the cottonwoods that lean toward the Marais des Cygnes River, their leaves shivering in a wind that seems to possess a memory of the tallgrass prairie. Five miles to the east, La Cygne Lake holds the afternoon light in a flat, silver palm, reflecting the clouds that move in slow, deliberate processions across the dome of the day. In the distance, the Rombaugh Hills soften into a hazy silhouette, marking the boundary where the plains finally yield to the sky, while the air remains clean, carrying the scent of dry soil and the faint, metallic tang of the coming dusk.
History settles into the limestone foundations of La Cygne, where the economy has long traded in the quiet exchange of agricultural labor and the steady pulse of regional industry. The nearby Marais Des Cygne Wildlife Area serves as a sanctuary for the land itself, where the water and thicket reclaim the spaces left behind by the plow, reminding those who live here that the terrain dictates the pace of progress. Daily life follows a cadence set by the seasons, where the movement of heavy machinery and the rustle of late-summer wheat define the passing of the year. There is a profound honesty in the way the light catches the dust on a quiet street, a visual stillness that suggests the inhabitants of La Cygne have learned how to endure without haste, finding a durable contentment in the simple geography of their own fields.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- World War 2 Memorial (Monument) — 0.2 mi, 194° S
- Marais Des Cygne Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.0 mi, 161° S
- Linn Valley Lakes Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 3.7 mi, 065° NE
- Linn County Park (Local Park) — 4.5 mi, 090° E
- Miami State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 4.8 mi, 341° N
- Miami State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 4.9 mi, 344° N
- La Cygne Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 059° NE
- Marais Des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 7.9 mi, 144° SE · 15k acres
- Middle Creek Lake Park (State Park) — 12.0 mi, 023° NE
- Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 14.2 mi, 317° NW
- Soldiers' Monument (Monument) — 14.7 mi, 314° NW
- John Brown (Public Artwork) — 14.8 mi, 314° NW
- Lake Miola Park (Local Park) — 16.8 mi, 346° N
- Louisburg Cider Mill (Attraction) — 18.8 mi, 001° N
- Fort Africa (Toothman Farm) (Historic Castle / Fort) — 19.1 mi, 114° SE
- Hillsdale Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 21.3 mi, 338° N
- Hillsdale State Park (State Park) — 22.1 mi, 338° N
- ATSF Caboose (Attraction) — 26.5 mi, 259° W
- Kansas Rocks (Theme Park) — 27.5 mi, 192° S
- B&B Theatres (Cinema) — 30.0 mi, 044° NE
- Ensor Park and Museum (Museum) — 30.9 mi, 356° N
- Bird Watching Blind (Viewpoint) — 31.3 mi, 007° N
- Ampitheatre (Theatre) — 31.4 mi, 007° N
- Fmr. location of Missouri Pacific Depot (Historic Ruins) — 32.9 mi, 304° NW
- Gardner Historical Museum (Museum) — 33.2 mi, 344° N
- Black Jack Battlefield (Registered Battlefield) — 34.8 mi, 325° NW
- Fmr. site of HU tower (Interlocking) (Historic Ruins) — 35.7 mi, 302° NW
- Eva Reynolds Fine Art Gallery (Gallery) — 37.2 mi, 009° N
- Rice Auditorium (Theatre) — 37.5 mi, 322° NW
- Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo (National Wildlife Refuge) — 39.6 mi, 117° SE · 3,906 acres
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About This La Cygne Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of La Cygne, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.350021, -94.761348. 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 La Cygne includes the ZIP code (66040), telephone area code (913), county seat of Linn County (Mound City), and school district assignment (Prairie View Unified School District 362).
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. |
