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Pawnee Rock Kansas Map

Explore Pawnee Rock, 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 Pawnee Rock, Kansas

How to Use This Pawnee Rock, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	38.265291
Longitude	-98.980929
Population	193
Density	264.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67567
Area Code	785
County Seat	Great Bend
School District	Fort Larned Unified School District 495

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About Pawnee Rock, Kansas

Pawnee Rock is a locality in Barton County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 193. The population density is 264.2 people per km². Pawnee Rock is located at 38.2653°N, 98.9809°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Pawnee Rock is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67567.

Pawnee Rock rises abruptly from the vast, wheat-horizon plains as a singular sandstone sentinel, its weathered face catching the amber light of the late afternoon sun. It lies 13.6 miles west-southwest of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 240°T), and is situated 8.7 miles northeast of Larned. Ash Creek winds its way through the nearby lowlands, where the silver-barked cottonwoods lean toward the water, casting long, lean shadows across the drying earth. The air here carries a crisp, dry weight, untempered by any cooling influence from the distant Great Bend Prairie. In the quiet hours before dusk, the landscape settles into a muted palette of tawny gold and iron-gray, emphasizing the austere beauty of a horizon that stretches unbroken toward the edges of the world.

Pawnee Rock serves as a profound waypoint in the memory of the American expansion, a landmark once carved by the passage of heavy wagons and the rhythmic tread of history. While the economy of Pawnee Rock now draws its sustenance from the patient labor of agriculture, the silence of the surrounding fields still echoes with the legacy of those who navigated the difficult terrain long before the grid of modern roads was laid. Residents maintain a steady pace of life, anchored by the cycles of the harvest and the persistent, restless movement of the wind across the open plains. Though the modern traveler might look toward the distant silhouettes of Jenkins Hill or venture toward the recreation found at Jordan Park, the spirit of Pawnee Rock remains fixed to the stone itself, a singular monument to endurance in a land where the sky claims more space than the earth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Jordan Park (Local Park) — 7.7 mi, 231° SW
Expo Center (Attraction) — 9.1 mi, 044° NE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 9.1 mi, 226° SW
Kansas Oil and Gas Museum (Museum) — 11.1 mi, 053° NE
Metal baseball statue (Public Artwork) — 11.7 mi, 059° NE
Great Bend Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 13.8 mi, 057° NE
Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.9 mi, 047° NE
Cheyenne Bottoms Fee (Conservation Area) — 18.5 mi, 037° NE
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.1 mi, 102° E · 44k acres
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ks (National Wildlife Refuge) — 27.7 mi, 121° SE · 232 acres
Historic Marker: Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (Attraction) — 34.2 mi, 294° NW
Pratt Sandhills Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 34.8 mi, 180° S
Christ Pilot Me Hill (Monument) — 38.0 mi, 290° W
Culbertson Auditorium (Theatre) — 42.1 mi, 094° E
Coronado-Quivira Museum (Museum) — 42.5 mi, 082° E
Wilson Opera House (Theatre) — 47.4 mi, 035° NE
World's Largest Czech Egg (Attraction) — 47.4 mi, 035° NE
Hodgeman State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 47.9 mi, 252° W
Wilson Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 49.0 mi, 018° N
Greensburg Big Well Country (Monument) — 49.2 mi, 202° S
Wilson State Park (State Park) — 51.0 mi, 030° NE
Haun Museum (Museum) — 51.1 mi, 256° W
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 55.0 mi, 313° NW
Hutchinson Art Center (Museum) — 58.7 mi, 104° E
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial (Monument) — 58.9 mi, 104° E
Carey Dome (Cinema) — 59.2 mi, 103° E
Gowans Stadium (Stadium) — 59.3 mi, 103° E
Ford Lake (Viewpoint) — 59.5 mi, 239° SW
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 59.7 mi, 023° NE
Cheney Wildlife Area (National Conservation Area) — 64.7 mi, 117° SE · 16k acres

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