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Longford Kansas Map

Explore Longford, 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 Longford, Kansas

How to Use This Longford, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	39.169996
Longitude	-97.331413
Population	73
Density	198.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67458
Area Code	785
County Seat	Clay Center
School District	Clay Center Unified School District 379

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About Longford, Kansas

Longford is a locality in Clay County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 73. The population density is 198.5 people per km². Longford is located at 39.1700°N, 97.3314°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Longford is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67458.

Longford sits upon a vast, unyielding expanse of Kansas plains where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth. It lies 27.3 miles north-northeast of Salina, KS (from Salina, KS: bearing 33°T), and is situated 18.6 miles north-northwest of Abilene. Badger Creek carves a narrow, sluggish path through the terrain just a mile away, its banks lined with the gnarled, silvered trunks of cottonwoods that shiver in the constant prairie breath. Beyond the immediate fields, the ground rises toward the distant, hazy suggestion of Arnold Divide, a faint ink-smudge against the western rim of the world. At dusk, the light here loses its sharpness, turning the surrounding grasses into a sea of muted bronze that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the sun has slipped away.

Longford grew from the ambition of settlers who saw promise in the deep, dark soil, establishing an economy tethered to the slow, seasonal pulse of wheat harvests and livestock. The local character is defined by a quiet endurance, a legacy of families who learned to navigate the unpredictable temper of the weather and the solitary demands of agricultural life. While the Ottawa State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area offers a place for respite thirteen miles out, and State Lake provides a similar stillness nearby, the daily rhythm of Longford remains anchored to the maintenance of silos and the steady hum of machinery. There is a profound, stripped-back beauty in the way the town occupies its space, standing as a singular, persistent mark against the immense emptiness of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Ottawa State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 12.6 mi, 252° W
Ottawa State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 13.1 mi, 253° W
Milford Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 15.3 mi, 069° E
Milford Lake (Recreation Area) — 17.0 mi, 066° NE
Utility Park (Local Park) — 17.6 mi, 037° NE
North Diamond Complex (Local Recreation) — 17.7 mi, 162° S
Eisenhower Park (Local Park) — 17.9 mi, 163° S
Fairgrounds Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 17.9 mi, 041° NE
Little Ike Statue (Public Artwork) — 18.5 mi, 160° S
Texas Cattle Trail Terminus (Monument) — 18.6 mi, 160° S
UPRR Abilene Depot (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 160° S
Abilene Convention & Visitors Bureau (Attraction) — 18.6 mi, 160° S
Great Plains Theatre (Cinema) — 18.7 mi, 159° S
Old Abilene Town (Attraction) — 19.0 mi, 161° S
Abilene & Smokey Valley Railway (Attraction) — 19.0 mi, 160° S
Honor Roll of Dickinson County Servicemen (Monument) — 19.0 mi, 160° S
Whiteford (Price) Archeological Site (Historic Ruins) — 23.9 mi, 207° SW
In Appreciation of Robert J. Paulette, P.E. (Monument) — 26.5 mi, 211° SW
Magic School (Historic Ruins) — 27.0 mi, 083° E
Geary County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 28.4 mi, 110° E
Arts & Memories Museum (Museum) — 28.5 mi, 072° E
C.L. Hoover Opera House (Theatre) — 28.5 mi, 110° E
Junction City Arts Council Gallery (Arts Centre) — 28.6 mi, 110° E
AMC Salina 10 (Cinema) — 29.5 mi, 210° SW
Kansas First Territorial Capitol (Museum) — 31.1 mi, 101° E
Cloud County Historical Museum (Museum) — 32.8 mi, 328° NW
Tuttle Creek State Parks (State Park) — 36.3 mi, 059° NE
Jamestown Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 43.6 mi, 318° NW
Maxwell Wildlife Refuge (State Conservation Area) — 47.2 mi, 187° S
Kanopolis State Park (State Park) — 48.9 mi, 227° SW

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