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Lafontaine Kansas Map

Explore Lafontaine, 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 Lafontaine, Kansas

How to Use This Lafontaine, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	37.399223
Longitude	-95.84526
Population	58
Density	11.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	66736
Area Code	913
County Seat	Fredonia
School District	Fredonia Unified School District 484

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About Lafontaine, Kansas

Lafontaine is a locality in Wilson County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 58. The population density is 11.2 people per km². Lafontaine is located at 37.3992°N, 95.8453°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 66736.

Lafontaine occupies a quiet expanse of Kansas prairie where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a sky that seems to hold more weight than the earth itself. It lies 62.6 miles west of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 270°T), and is situated 9.2 miles west of Neodesha. The land here is defined by the subtle, rhythmic pulse of the plains, where the stubborn persistence of native grasses gives way to the shadowed thickets of cottonwoods lining the banks of Mulberry Creek. Though the Chautauqua Hills rise as a hazy, jagged suggestion of violet in the distant west, the immediate terrain remains dominated by the open, unyielding reach of farmland. When the light leans low at the end of the day, it turns the fields into a flat, burnished copper, casting long, lean shadows that make the stillness of the landscape feel less like an absence of movement and more like a held breath.

Lafontaine carries the quiet gravity of a place that has long measured its success by the yield of the soil and the temperament of the seasons. The local economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate work of agriculture, a rhythm that has remained largely unchanged since the early settlers first broke the stubborn sod. While the Duck Creek Wildlife Area provides a sanctuary for the wilder remnants of the region, the human presence is marked by a modest, utilitarian resilience that ignores the frantic pace of the wider world. Residents often look toward the regional landmarks like Elk City Lake to mark their leisure, yet the true character of the place resides in the way the wind carries the scent of dry earth and turning crops across the fence lines. It is a life lived in plain sight, governed by the turning of the sun and the patient, cyclical labor that defines the very edges of existence in this part of the state.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Duck Creek Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.0 mi, 203° SW
Dove Flats Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.1 mi, 181° S
Elk City Lake (Recreation Area) — 8.9 mi, 166° S
Neodesha Sports Park (Local Park) — 9.1 mi, 078° E
Skate Park (Local Recreation) — 9.1 mi, 080° E
Elk City State Park (State Park) — 9.2 mi, 157° SE
MP Fredonia Depot (Attraction) — 9.4 mi, 004° N
Le Hunt Cement Plant (Historic Ruins) — 9.9 mi, 153° SE
Riverside Park (Local Park) — 13.2 mi, 144° SE
Montgomery State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 17.6 mi, 153° SE
ATSF Cheryvale Depot (Attraction) — 18.5 mi, 119° SE
Fall River Lake (Recreation Area) — 20.5 mi, 324° NW
Fall River State Park (State Park) — 20.7 mi, 328° NW
Republic F-86 "Thunderstreak" (Attraction) — 25.7 mi, 154° SE
Woodson State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 26.2 mi, 359° N
Caney Valley Speedway (Attraction) — 26.6 mi, 192° S
Spencer/Rounds Performing Arts Theatre (Theatre) — 28.1 mi, 154° SE
Dalton Defenders Museum (Museum) — 28.1 mi, 153° SE
Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum (Museum) — 29.1 mi, 048° NE
Iron Horse Museum (Museum) — 32.2 mi, 097° E
Parsons Historical Museum (Museum) — 32.3 mi, 097° E
Parsons Munincipal Auditorium (Theatre) — 32.4 mi, 097° E
Antietam Circle (Monument) — 33.4 mi, 097° E
Spider Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 42.9 mi, 035° NE
Bartlesville Art Assocations (Arts Centre) — 45.1 mi, 189° S
66 Sculpture (Monument) — 45.6 mi, 189° S
Civilian Conservtion Corps and Osage Hills State Park Pawhuska - Bartlesville, Oklahoma (Monument) — 49.4 mi, 202° S
Osage County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 57.4 mi, 208° SW
Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 58.5 mi, 000° N · 37k acres
E.B. White Gallery (Gallery) — 63.4 mi, 297° NW

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