Explore Lone Elm, 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 Lone Elm, 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 Lone Elm.
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 | Lone Elm |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Marshall County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.079628 |
| Longitude | -95.243056 |
| Population | 27 |
| Density | 153.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 66518, 66039 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| County Seat | Marysville |
| School District | Crest Unified School District 479 |
Lone Elm emerges from the vast, undulating prairie as a solitary sentinel amidst a landscape defined by the persistent, sweeping motion of the wind. It lies 21.9 miles south-southeast of Beatrice, NE (from Beatrice, NE: bearing 167°T), and is situated 8.1 miles north of Marysville. Deer Creek carves a narrow, verdant path through the terrain, its banks lined with the gnarled, pale trunks of cottonwoods that lean toward the water as if listening to the steady, rhythmic flow. The light here at dusk possesses a peculiar, amber clarity, casting long, thin shadows that stretch across the wheat fields until the horizon blurs into a soft, bruised violet. Those who traverse the plains recognize the quiet authority of the sky, which dominates the visual field, pressing down upon the tallgrass and the distant, subtle rise of Indian Mound, visible only when the atmosphere is stripped of its usual haze.
Lone Elm traces its heritage to the arduous paths of early settlers who navigated the high plains, their lives tethered to the seasonal shifts of the earth and the stubborn demands of agriculture. The economy remains a quiet dialogue between the farmer and the soil, where the pulse of the local industry beats in sync with the harvest and the maintenance of the county’s limestone structures. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, the proximity to the Big Indian Wildlife Management Area offers a sanctuary for the native fauna, preserving a fragment of the wild prairie that once defined the entire region. Even the stillness surrounding the Warford Reservoir serves as a reminder of the vital, hidden moisture that sustains this expanse, grounding Lone Elm in a tradition of resilience where the everyday labor of life is measured not by clockwork, but by the slow, deliberate turning of the seasons.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lone Elm, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.079628, -95.243056. 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 Lone Elm includes the ZIP code (66518, 66039), telephone area code (913), county seat of Marshall County (Marysville), and school district assignment (Crest Unified School District 479).
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. |