Pawnee Rock Kansas Map

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.

About This Pawnee Rock Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pawnee Rock, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.265291, -98.980929. 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 Pawnee Rock includes the ZIP code (67567), telephone area code (785), county seat of Barton County (Great Bend), and school district assignment (Fort Larned Unified School District 495).

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.