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Olmitz Kansas Map

Explore Olmitz, 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 Olmitz, Kansas

How to Use This Olmitz, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	38.516679
Longitude	-98.93648
Population	90
Density	218.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67564
Area Code	785
County Seat	Great Bend
School District	Otis-Bison Unified School District 403

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About Olmitz, Kansas

Olmitz is a locality in Barton County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 90. The population density is 218.5 people per km². Olmitz is located at 38.5167°N, 98.9365°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Olmitz is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67564.

Olmitz marks a quiet interruption in the vast, unbroken flatness of the Kansas plains, where the horizon stretches so thin it seems to pull the very sky down toward the wheat. It lies 14.0 miles northwest of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 319°T), and is situated 8.6 miles west of Hoisington. The land here holds a stark, geometric precision, defined by the relentless play of light that bleaches the color from the soil by noon and returns it in deep, bruised purples as the sun retreats. Three miles to the east, the thin, winding line of Blood Creek cuts through the earth, a modest vein that rarely swells but provides a necessary shadow for the occasional cottonwood to take root. Beyond the immediate fields, the landscape remains spare and unadorned, save for the distant, shimmering suggestion of Barton Lake that waits ten miles away, a stagnant mirror reflecting only the passing clouds.

Olmitz retains the hushed, deliberate pace of a place built by those who understood that survival required both grit and a communal silence. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, a cycle that dictates the movement of trucks and the closing of storefronts with an ancient, predictable gravity. Visitors seeking a reprieve from the isolation often travel eight miles to Noisington Bicentennial Park, where the tallgrass mimics the motion of the wind across the wider plains. Life in Olmitz operates on a scale that favors the individual over the collective, where the maintenance of a single fence line or the preservation of a weathered building serves as the primary currency of civic pride.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Noisington Bicentennial Park (Local Park) — 8.0 mi, 090° E
Cheyenne Bottoms Fee (Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 101° E
Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.5 mi, 111° E
Expo Center (Attraction) — 11.6 mi, 160° S
Veterans Memorial Park (Local Park) — 12.3 mi, 144° SE
Kansas Oil and Gas Museum (Museum) — 12.5 mi, 149° SE
Breaking the Sod statue (Public Artwork) — 13.1 mi, 145° SE
Great Bend Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 13.5 mi, 137° SE
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.6 mi, 136° SE · 44k acres
Wilson Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 31.9 mi, 023° NE
Wilson Opera House (Theatre) — 32.8 mi, 049° NE
World's Largest Czech Egg (Attraction) — 32.8 mi, 050° NE
Wilson Lake (Recreation Area) — 33.1 mi, 027° NE
Historic Marker: Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (Attraction) — 33.8 mi, 264° W
Wilson State Park (State Park) — 35.3 mi, 040° NE
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ks (National Wildlife Refuge) — 38.2 mi, 146° SE · 232 acres
Christ Pilot Me Hill (Monument) — 38.4 mi, 264° W
Coronado-Quivira Museum (Museum) — 41.4 mi, 106° E
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 43.1 mi, 030° NE
Roy and Clara Miller's Park (Attraction) — 43.2 mi, 030° NE
Culbertson Auditorium (Theatre) — 44.6 mi, 117° SE
Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 45.3 mi, 294° NW
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 47.1 mi, 295° NW
Meades Ranch Triangulation Station (Monument) — 53.1 mi, 023° NE
Lincoln County Historical Society (Museum) — 55.7 mi, 049° NE
Harlow Studio & Gallery (Gallery) — 55.8 mi, 049° NE
Crispin’s Drug Store Museum (Museum) — 55.8 mi, 049° NE
Frontier in Lincoln County (Monument) — 57.4 mi, 052° NE
Carey Dome (Cinema) — 63.3 mi, 119° SE
Cheney Wildlife Area (National Conservation Area) — 72.3 mi, 130° SE · 16k acres

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