Macksville Kansas Map

About Macksville, Kansas

Macksville is a locality in Stafford County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 471. The population density is 182.2 people per km². Macksville is located at 37.9592°N, 98.9687°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Macksville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67557.

Macksville emerges from the flat, wheat-streaked horizon like a steady pulse in the vast, open silence of the Kansas plains. It lies 30.1 miles south-southwest of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 202°T), and is situated 16.9 miles south-southeast of Larned. Little Wild Horse Creek winds past the southern edge of the grid, its banks lined with the gnarled, silver-gray trunks of cottonwoods that catch the low, honeyed light of late afternoon. Beyond the immediate fields, the earth stretches toward the distant rise of Jenkins Hill, a subtle interruption in the otherwise unrelenting expanse of the horizon. The air here carries the dry, honest weight of the soil, shifting with a wind that seems to possess a memory of the tallgrass that once covered everything, now replaced by the rhythmic geometry of modern cultivation.

Macksville maintains a quiet, industrious character, anchored by a legacy of agrarian resilience that has survived the lean years of the past. The local economy remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest, with grain silos serving as the primary architecture of the skyline, standing as tall, functional monuments to the work that defines the people here. While the Pratt Sandhills Wildlife Area lies fourteen miles away, offering a sanctuary of native vegetation, the daily life of Macksville is defined by the steady maintenance of the homesteads and the long, straight roads that connect the community to the wider world. It is a place where the passage of time is marked not by grand events, but by the slow, deliberate rotation of crops and the way the shadows lengthen across the porch boards as the sun retreats toward Lost Lake, twenty miles to the west.

About This Macksville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Macksville, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.959182, -98.96871. 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 Macksville includes the ZIP code (67557), telephone area code (785), county seat of Stafford County (St. John), and school district assignment (Macksville Unified School District 351).

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.