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McDonald Kansas Map

Explore McDonald, 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 McDonald, Kansas

How to Use This McDonald, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	39.78583
Longitude	-101.375718
Population	113
Density	199.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67745
Area Code	785
County Seat	Atwood
School District	Cheylin Unified School District 103

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About McDonald, Kansas

McDonald is a locality in Rawlins County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 113. The population density is 199.2 people per km². McDonald is located at 39.7858°N, 101.3757°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. McDonald is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67745.

McDonald exists as a quiet geometry of steel silos and straight roads pressed firmly against the vast, unrelenting expanse of the High Plains. It lies 126.1 miles west-northwest of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 300°T), and is situated 32.0 miles north-northwest of Colby. The land here does not offer the drama of sudden peaks, but rather a slow, rhythmic swell of earth that stretches toward a horizon so wide it seems to swallow the sky. North Beaver Creek marks the landscape with a thin, jagged vein of shadow, its banks lined with the brittle, silvered skeletons of cottonwoods that shiver in the constant, restless wind. Only eleven miles away, the earth drops away into the rugged, sun-bleached fissures of Sawyer Canyon, where the soil turns a deeper, more stubborn shade of ochre. During the long, golden hours of late afternoon, the light here is thin and sharp, casting long, bruised shadows that emphasize the immense solitude of the fields.

Agriculture remains the singular, heavy pulse of McDonald, dictating the tempo of every day through the seasonal turning of wheat and the steady, mechanical hum of grain trucks navigating the county roads. The history of the place is etched not in monuments, but in the enduring resilience of those who cultivate a landscape that demands much and promises little beyond the next harvest. Life here is measured by the clarity of the weather and the distance to the nearest reprieve, whether that be the quiet, reflective surface of Leach Pond or the more distant, open expanse of the South Fork Wildlife Area. Even as the modern world pushes against the edges of the plains, McDonald maintains a stoic, unadorned character, functioning as a vital, quiet node in a network of plains commerce where the silence is often the most significant inhabitant.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Buffalo Statue (Public Artwork) — 17.7 mi, 086° E
Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 17.9 mi, 085° E
South Fork Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.9 mi, 303° NW
Dundy County Museum (Museum) — 20.0 mi, 335° NW
Motorcycle Museum (Museum) — 22.6 mi, 268° W
St. Francis Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 25.5 mi, 263° W
Little House Museum (Museum) — 26.2 mi, 017° N
Swanson Lake (Resource Management Area) — 27.1 mi, 024° NE
Rock Creek State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 29.1 mi, 316° NW
Texas Trail Canyon Historical Marker (Monument) — 30.3 mi, 303° NW
Young Park (Local Park) — 32.1 mi, 145° SE
School Number 65 (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 32.3 mi, 253° W
Hitchcock County Museum (Museum) — 33.1 mi, 036° NE
Land and Sky (Attraction) — 33.2 mi, 297° NW
German Plains School (Historic Ruins) — 33.5 mi, 282° W
Prairie Museum of Art and History (Museum) — 33.7 mi, 148° SE
World's Largest Easel (Attraction) — 35.6 mi, 210° SW
South Republican Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 37.7 mi, 256° W
KS CO NB tripoint marker (Monument) — 38.9 mi, 293° NW
Bonny Lake State Park (State Park) — 43.7 mi, 254° W
Bonny Lake State Park/South Republican State Wildlife Area (State Park) — 43.8 mi, 255° W
Enders Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 44.2 mi, 350° N
Sherman State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 46.0 mi, 207° SW
Sappa Park (Local Recreation) — 46.2 mi, 086° E
Midway Theater (Cinema) — 58.0 mi, 235° SW
Jerusalem Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 62.9 mi, 160° S
Mount Sunflower (Attraction) — 63.5 mi, 214° SW
Smoky Valley Ranch (Conservation Area) — 65.6 mi, 161° S

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