McDonald Kansas Map

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.

About This McDonald Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of McDonald, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.78583, -101.375718. 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 McDonald includes the ZIP code (67745), telephone area code (785), county seat of Rawlins County (Atwood), and school district assignment (Cheylin Unified School District 103).

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.