Explore Lincoln Center, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Lincoln Center, 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 Lincoln Center.
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 | Lincoln Center |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Lincoln County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 39.043 |
| Longitude | -98.1468 |
| Population | 1,171 |
| Density | 361.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67455 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Lincoln Center |
| School District | Lincoln Unified School District 298 |
Lincoln Center sits as a solitary anchor upon the vast, open plains where the horizon stretches wide enough to swallow the sun each evening. It lies 32.0 miles west-northwest of Salina, KS (from Salina, KS: bearing 296°T), and is situated 22.0 miles north-northeast of Ellsworth. Yauger Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the earth nearby, its banks lined with the silver-limbed cottonwoods that lean against the constant push of the prairie wind. The land here holds a quiet, austere beauty, defined by the way the light turns pale gold across the dry grasses at dusk, emphasizing the flat, unyielding expanse of the Kansas landscape. Beyond the town limits, the terrain rises into subtle, undulating elevations that echo the distant, hazy silhouette of Williams Butte, standing as a silent sentinel on the far edge of the sky.
The architecture of Lincoln Center reflects a reliance on the local limestone that has served as the building block for the county seat’s most enduring structures for generations. Agriculture remains the steady pulse of the local economy, with the rhythm of the seasons dictating the slow, deliberate pace of daily life as wheat fields transition from emerald to straw. While the Wilson Recreation Area offers a space for respite eighteen miles away and Wilson Lake provides a broader reach of water for those seeking a change from the creek’s quiet flow, the people here maintain a deep connection to the immediate soil. Residents carry a collective memory of the dust and the drought, a stoicism that informs how the community gathers at the courthouse or moves through the business district, honoring a history that values resilience over flourish.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lincoln Center, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.043, -98.1468. 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 Lincoln Center includes the ZIP code (67455), telephone area code (785), county seat of Lincoln County (Lincoln Center), and school district assignment (Lincoln Unified School District 298).
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. |