Olmitz Kansas Map

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.

About This Olmitz Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Olmitz, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.516679, -98.93648. 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 Olmitz includes the ZIP code (67564), telephone area code (785), county seat of Barton County (Great Bend), and school district assignment (Otis-Bison Unified School District 403).

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.