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Melvern Kansas Map

Explore Melvern, 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 Melvern, Kansas

How to Use This Melvern, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	38.506958
Longitude	-95.637762
Population	356
Density	386.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	66510
Area Code	913
County Seat	Lyndon
School District	Marais des Cygnes Valley Unified School District 456

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About Melvern, Kansas

Melvern is a locality in Osage County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 356. The population density is 386.1 people per km². Melvern is located at 38.5070°N, 95.6378°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Melvern is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66510.

Melvern unfolds across the undulating prairie where the sky expands with a vast, unremitting clarity that defines the Kansas horizon. It lies 21.4 miles west-southwest of Ottawa, KS (from Ottawa, KS: bearing 250°T), and is situated 13.4 miles southeast of Osage City. The land here is a mosaic of tallgrass and cultivated fields, shaped by the persistent breath of the wind that ripples through the vegetation like a tide across the plains. To the west, the distant silhouette of the Sand Hills creates a faint, hazy boundary against the twilight, while the immediate terrain dips into the quiet seclusion of Lane Hollow. The Marais des Cygnes River carves a serpentine path through the earth just a short distance away, its banks lined with the sturdy, silver-leafed shadows of cottonwoods that drink deep from the limestone-filtered soil.

Melvern bears the marks of a history rooted in the tenacity of those who first broke the sod, a legacy that remains visible in the modest, sturdy architecture of its older dwellings. The local economy persists in a quiet dialogue with the land, shifting from the traditional cycles of grain and grazing to the recreational rhythms invited by the presence of Melvern Lake. Residents find a particular stillness in the Melvern Recreation Area, where the water catches the amber glow of the setting sun, turning the surface into a mirror for the passing clouds. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured pace, anchored by a collective understanding that the character of the place is forged not by grand gestures, but by the steady, seasonal turn of the earth and the enduring strength of the prairie grass.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Melvern Railroad Park (Attraction) — 0.1 mi, 159° S
Melvern Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 2.9 mi, 271° W
Melvern Lake (Recreation Area) — 3.7 mi, 269° W
Pomona State Park (State Park) — 10.2 mi, 010° N
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 13.0 mi, 312° NW
Jones Youth Park (Local Park) — 13.4 mi, 307° NW
ATSF Osage City Depot Museum (Attraction) — 13.5 mi, 311° NW
Osage State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 17.6 mi, 355° N
Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.7 mi, 215° SW · 37k acres
Reading Woods Natural Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.7 mi, 275° W
Fmr. site of HU tower (Interlocking) (Historic Ruins) — 19.1 mi, 064° NE
William H. Howe Butterfly Mural (Public Artwork) — 21.2 mi, 070° E
Fmr. location of Missouri Pacific Depot (Historic Ruins) — 21.5 mi, 069° E
Lyon State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 22.7 mi, 276° W
Clinton Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 25.0 mi, 022° N
ATSF Caboose (Attraction) — 26.7 mi, 126° SE
Midland Railway Baldwin City Depot (Attraction) — 30.0 mi, 052° NE
Civil War Memorial (Monument) — 30.0 mi, 256° W
Memorial to Fallen Educators (Monument) — 30.0 mi, 259° W
National Teacher’s Hall of Fame (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 258° W
Lyon County Historical Museum (Museum) — 30.1 mi, 257° W
Emporia Arts Council (Arts Centre) — 30.1 mi, 257° W
Pottawatomie Massacre Memorial (Monument) — 30.3 mi, 099° E
Rice Auditorium (Theatre) — 30.7 mi, 052° NE
Flint Hills 8 Theater (Cinema) — 31.8 mi, 259° W
Black Jack Battlefield (Registered Battlefield) — 32.5 mi, 057° NE
Sanders Mound (Viewpoint) — 33.6 mi, 029° NE
Topeka Art Guild Gallery (Arts Centre) — 36.4 mi, 351° N
Perry State Park (State Park) — 43.7 mi, 010° N
Marais Des Cygnes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 54.6 mi, 109° E · 15k acres

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