Maple Hill Kansas Map

About Maple Hill, Kansas

Maple Hill is a locality in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 631. The population density is 1002.6 people per km². Maple Hill is located at 39.0847°N, 96.0280°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Maple Hill is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66507.

Maple Hill occupies a high, expansive reach of the Flint Hills where the tallgrass prairie stretches toward a horizon that feels infinite and unyielding. It lies 18.9 miles west of Topeka, KS (from Topeka, KS: bearing 278°T), and is situated 7.9 miles south-southeast of St. Marys. Marys. The landscape is defined by the sharp rise of Buffalo Mound, a persistent landmark that anchors the view against the vast, shifting sky. Below these slopes, the land dips into the quiet passage of Mill Creek, where cottonwoods cluster in the damp earth, their silver leaves shivering in the constant, restless wind. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar clarity, stripping the shadows from the limestone outcrops and casting the tall, amber grasses into a brilliant, gilded relief that hums with the heat of the afternoon.

Maple Hill emerged from the sturdy ambition of early settlers who recognized the resilience required to cultivate this rugged, wind-swept terrain. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of the soil and the grazing livestock that move across the pastures, maintaining a quiet continuity that ignores the frantic pace of the wider world. Residents often look toward the Green Wildlife Area for the solitude of the open range, or find a different kind of quietude in the deeper, shadowed recesses of Toad Hollow. Life in Maple Hill moves with the deliberate weight of the seasons, a slow accumulation of daily work and neighborly observation that leaves little room for pretense, grounded firmly in the stubborn, beautiful reality of the plains.

About This Maple Hill Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Maple Hill, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.084722, -96.028047. 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 Maple Hill includes the ZIP code (66507), telephone area code (913), county seat of Wabaunsee County (Alma), and school district assignment (Wabaunsee Unified School District 329).

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.