La Harpe Kansas Map
Explore La Harpe, 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 Harpe, Kansas
How to Use This La Harpe, Kansas Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for La Harpe, 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 Harpe.
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 Harpe |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Allen County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.91698 |
| Longitude | -95.299146 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 232.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 66751 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| County Seat | Iola |
| School District | Iola Unified School District 257 |
About La Harpe, Kansas
La Harpe is a locality in Allen County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 232.5 people per km². La Harpe is located at 37.9170°N, 95.2991°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. La Harpe is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66751.La Harpe occupies a flat expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon pulls the sky downward until it brushes the dry, summer-bleached grasses. It lies 47.7 miles northwest of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 317°T), and is situated 5.5 miles east of Iola. The wind exerts a constant, invisible pressure here, rippling through the fields and stirring the silver-backed leaves of cottonwoods that line the banks of Elm Creek. To the west, the land holds a quiet, austere tension, while the distant, hazy silhouette of Guthrie Mountain serves as a rare vertical interruption in an otherwise horizontal world. Residents often retreat to the shade of East Iola Park to escape the midday heat, watching the light sharpen and turn a bruised, metallic gold as it settles over the open prairie.
History in La Harpe is written in the rusted skeletons of old machinery and the enduring, sturdy architecture of a region built on the grit of agricultural labor. The local economy persists with a stubborn, quiet focus, tethered to the cycles of the soil and the fluctuating demands of the grain trade. On quiet mornings, the air carries a faint, sharp scent of turned earth and diesel, a sensory reminder of the work that sustains the few hundred souls living here. Life moves at the pace of the seasons, distant from the frantic hum of urban centers, occasionally punctuated by a trip to the shores of Lake Bassola for a moment of stillness. In La Harpe, the passage of time is measured not by clocks, but by the slow, deliberate growth of crops and the way the shadows stretch across the porch floors as the sun retreats.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- East Iola Park (Local Park) — 4.5 mi, 277° W
- Spider Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 5.1 mi, 262° W
- Riverside Park (Local Park) — 6.0 mi, 271° W
- Bourbon State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 15.0 mi, 123° SE
- Bourbon Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.0 mi, 127° SE
- Anderson County Prairies Fee (Conservation Area) — 17.5 mi, 004° N
- Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum (Museum) — 18.2 mi, 207° SW
- Kansas Rocks (Theme Park) — 23.7 mi, 082° E
- ATSF Caboose (Attraction) — 25.1 mi, 007° N
- Hollister Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 26.8 mi, 113° SE
- Woodson State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 30.1 mi, 254° W
- Crawford State Park (State Park) — 32.4 mi, 125° SE
- Ware Monument (Monument) — 33.7 mi, 101° E
- Toronto State Park (State Park) — 34.6 mi, 254° W
- Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.8 mi, 312° NW · 37k acres
- Pottawatomie Massacre Memorial (Monument) — 37.9 mi, 018° N
- Marais Des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.4 mi, 059° NE · 15k acres
- MP Fredonia Depot (Attraction) — 39.4 mi, 228° SW
- Parsons Theater (Cinema) — 39.8 mi, 177° S
- Iron Horse Museum (Museum) — 40.1 mi, 177° S
- Antietam Circle (Monument) — 40.3 mi, 176° S
- Miners Hall Museum (Museum) — 42.5 mi, 130° SE
- Franklin Community Center & Heritage Museum (Museum) — 42.5 mi, 130° SE
- Melvern Railroad Park (Attraction) — 44.6 mi, 336° NW
- ATSF Cheryvale Depot (Attraction) — 46.8 mi, 197° S
- Prairie State Park (Viewpoint) — 48.1 mi, 124° SE
- Fmr. location of Missouri Pacific Depot (Historic Ruins) — 48.4 mi, 002° N
- Fmr. site of HU tower (Interlocking) (Historic Ruins) — 49.0 mi, 359° N
- Fort Africa (Toothman Farm) (Historic Castle / Fort) — 51.6 mi, 064° NE
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About This La Harpe Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of La Harpe, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.91698, -95.299146. 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 Harpe includes the ZIP code (66751), telephone area code (913), county seat of Allen County (Iola), and school district assignment (Iola Unified School District 257).
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. |
