Minneola Kansas Map

About Minneola, Kansas

Minneola is a locality in Clark County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 738. The population density is 620.8 people per km². Minneola is located at 37.4434°N, 100.0151°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Minneola is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67865.

Minneola occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon line remains as sharp as a drawn wire. It lies 21.4 miles south of Dodge City, KS (from Dodge City, KS: bearing 180°T), and is situated 59.4 miles southeast of Garden City. The landscape is defined by the high, open plains that stretch toward the distant silhouette of Devils Backbone, their surfaces etched by the persistent, scouring breath of the wind. Near the periphery, Bluff Creek carves a shallow, intermittent path through the earth, its banks lined with the skeletal gray limbs of cottonwoods that lean against the light. During the long, golden hours of dusk, the prairie grass takes on the color of rusted iron, casting shadows that lengthen across the fields like ink spilled on a pale table. Further out, the Clark Wildlife Area provides a quiet refuge for native flora, maintaining a stillness that seems to amplify the rhythmic, dry rustle of the plains under a wide and indifferent sky.

Minneola maintains an economy deeply rooted in the heavy, reliable yield of the wheat harvest and the quiet persistence of cattle ranching. The patterns of daily existence here are dictated by the cycles of the soil, a legacy that survives from the early homesteading era when the promise of arable land drew families to this intersection of prairie routes. While the Clark County State Lake remains a solitary point of stillness thirteen miles away, the character of the locality is defined more by the labor of the combine and the steady maintenance of local infrastructure than by any singular landmark. Life in Minneola moves according to the demands of the seasons, fostering a culture of self-reliance where the community gathers in the quiet spaces between the grain elevators to observe the slow, deliberate work of the harvest.

About This Minneola Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Minneola, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.443356, -100.015136. 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 Minneola includes the ZIP code (67865), telephone area code (785), county seat of Clark County (Ashland), and school district assignment (Minneola Unified School District 219).

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.