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Ness City Kansas Map

Explore Ness City, 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 Ness City, Kansas

How to Use This Ness City, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	38.452794
Longitude	-99.906514
Population	1,329
Density	352.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67560
Area Code	785
County Seat	Ness City
School District	Ness City Unified School District 303

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About Ness City, Kansas

Ness City is a locality in Ness County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,329. The population density is 352.7 people per km². Ness City is located at 38.4528°N, 99.9065°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ness City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67560.

Ness City emerges from the expansive, sun-bleached plains of western Kansas like a quiet assertion of endurance against the vast, open sky. It lies 43.0 miles southwest of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 227°T), and is situated 48.7 miles north of Dodge City. The North Fork Walnut Creek traces a thin, verdant ribbon through the parched earth nearby, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that lean perpetually against the prevailing wind. During the golden hour, the light stretches thin and amber across the flat horizon, illuminating the dust motes that dance above the dry grasses and the distant, rugged silhouette of Round House Rock. The landscape possesses a stark, unadorned geometry, where the heavy, relentless sky dictates the pace of the day and the earth beneath remains patient, waiting for the seasonal rains to soften its firm, earthen grip.

Ness City serves as a sturdy anchor for the surrounding agricultural expanse, its economy inextricably linked to the cycles of harvest and the persistence of the local wheat growers. The limestone courthouse stands as a central, weathered monument to the region’s resolve, its pale, quarried blocks reflecting a history built upon the stubborn cultivation of the prairie. Beyond the immediate grid of the streets, the Goodman State Lake and Wildlife Area offers a quiet refuge of native grasses and habitat, while the broader, deeper basins like South Fork Guzzlers Gulch hint at the ancient, hidden shifts of the terrain. Life in Ness City moves with the measured, deliberate pulse of a place that understands the gravity of the seasons, where the hum of machinery in the fields punctuates the silence and the evening air carries the scent of dry soil and coming change.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Goodman State Lake and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 150° SE
Christ Pilot Me Hill (Monument) — 14.4 mi, 090° E
Kansas Historical Marker: Homestead of a Genius (Attraction) — 15.9 mi, 270° W
Historic Marker: Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (Attraction) — 18.9 mi, 087° E
Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.1 mi, 020° N
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 22.4 mi, 019° N
Cedar Bluff Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 23.8 mi, 016° N
Haun Museum (Museum) — 25.4 mi, 178° S
Hodgeman State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 27.6 mi, 171° S
Finney State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 28.8 mi, 232° SW
Castle Rock (Attraction) — 31.6 mi, 333° NW
Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 41.4 mi, 045° NE
Monarch of the Plains (Public Artwork) — 41.6 mi, 047° NE
Ford Lake (Viewpoint) — 43.6 mi, 181° S
Saint Mary Of The Plains Park (Local Recreation) — 46.8 mi, 187° S
B&B Dodge City Village 8 (Cinema) — 47.0 mi, 187° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 47.6 mi, 114° SE
Santa Fe Trail Remains Lookout (Attraction) — 48.5 mi, 199° S
Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame and Gunfighters Wax Museum (Museum) — 48.7 mi, 187° S
Boot Hill Museum (Museum) — 48.7 mi, 187° S
El Quartelejo Museum (Museum) — 54.8 mi, 272° W
Scott State Park (State Park) — 56.0 mi, 285° W
Battle of Punished Woman's Fork (Monument) — 56.7 mi, 284° W
Kansas Oil and Gas Museum (Museum) — 59.3 mi, 096° E
Jerusalem Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 60.9 mi, 296° NW
Great Bend Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 62.0 mi, 095° E
Lee Richardson Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 62.5 mi, 237° SW
Greensburg Big Well Country (Monument) — 66.6 mi, 151° SE
Wilson Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 72.4 mi, 059° NE

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