Penalosa Kansas Map

About Penalosa, Kansas

Penalosa is a locality in Kingman County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 18. The population density is 67.5 people per km². Penalosa is located at 37.7167°N, 98.3198°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Penalosa is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67035.

Penalosa occupies a sliver of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, pinned down only by the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator. It lies 31.9 miles southwest of Hutchinson, KS (from Hutchinson, KS: bearing 222°T), and is situated 12.3 miles west-northwest of Kingman. The land here leans into a quiet, rhythmic flatness, broken occasionally by the low, meandering cut of Goose Creek just a mile away, where cottonwoods cluster to catch the erratic breeze. Sunlight in Penalosa possesses a peculiar clarity, bleaching the tallgrass to a pale straw color and casting long, sharp shadows that seem to stretch for miles across the open fields. In the distance, the faint, jagged outline of Pilot Knob anchors the western sky, a reminder of the geologic patience required of those who live amidst such vast, unencumbered space.

History in Penalosa remains tethered to the soil, defined by the seasonal pulse of harvest and the collective memory of a landscape that demands deep roots. Economic life cycles through the demands of agriculture, with the nearby Byron Walker Wildlife Area providing a quiet sanctuary for the native prairie grasses and local fauna that persist beyond the fence lines of working farms. Residents often look toward Kingman County State Lake for a change in the scale of the view, finding a rare, still reflection of the sky in the water that contrasts with the constant motion of the wind in the wheat. Life in Penalosa moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has learned to measure time by the growth of crops and the slow, inevitable turning of the seasons.

About This Penalosa Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Penalosa, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.716684, -98.319793. 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 Penalosa includes the ZIP code (67035), telephone area code (785), county seat of Kingman County (Kingman), and school district assignment (Cunningham Unified School District 332).

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.