Matfield Green Kansas Map

About Matfield Green, Kansas

Matfield Green is a locality in Chase County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 49. The population density is 133.2 people per km². Matfield Green is located at 38.1592°N, 96.5606°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Matfield Green is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66862.

Matfield Green emerges from the sweeping expanse of the tallgrass prairie, where the horizon stretches thin and taut under a sky that dwarfs the earth below. It lies 26.6 miles southwest of Emporia, KS (from Emporia, KS: bearing 231°T), and is situated 28.8 miles northeast of El Dorado. The South Fork Cottonwood River carves a quiet, meandering path through the landscape, its banks lined with the silver-leafed trees that lean toward the water as if listening to the steady, rhythmic pulse of the current. To the west, the subtle rise of Texaco Hill breaks the monotony of the plains, acting as a silent sentinel over the miles of undulating grass that glow with a pale, bruised gold during the final hours of light. The air here carries the scent of dry earth and sun-warmed stems, a stillness that feels less like emptiness and more like an intense, singular focus on the endurance of the land itself.

Matfield Green sustains a character forged by the persistence of ranching and the slow, deliberate work of those who manage the vast, open pastures that define the region. Far from the frantic pace of industrial centers, the local life turns on the cycles of the seasons and the management of the land, with the Greater Flint Hills Fee providing a vast, protected sanctuary for the native grasses that have defined this geography for generations. While the memory of harder, dust-blown years lingers in the architectural lines of the older structures, the present-day rhythm is quiet, dictated by the movement of cattle and the shifting intensity of the wind. There is a profound clarity in the way the light catches the limestone outcrops, a reminder that Matfield Green exists as a distinct, unyielding point of human presence within an ancient and indifferent expanse.

About This Matfield Green Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Matfield Green, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.159184, -96.560566. 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 Matfield Green includes the ZIP code (66862), telephone area code (913), county seat of Chase County (Cottonwood Falls), and school district assignment (Chase County Unified School District 284).

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.