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Peru Kansas Map

Explore Peru, 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 Peru, Kansas

How to Use This Peru, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	37.088671
Longitude	-96.09471
Population	101
Density	120.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67360
Area Code	785
County Seat	Sedan
School District	Chautauqua County Community Unified School District 286

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About Peru, Kansas

Peru is a locality in Chautauqua County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 101. The population density is 120.4 people per km². Peru is located at 37.0887°N, 96.0947°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Peru is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67360.

Peru sits upon the expansive, wind-scoured plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut, defined by the steady, rhythmic persistence of the Middle Caney Creek as it carves through the tallgrass. It lies 50.7 miles east-southeast of Winfield, KS (from Winfield, KS: bearing 102°T), and is situated 24.4 miles north-northwest of Bartlesville. The land here rises toward the rugged, limestone-streaked elevations of the Chautauqua Hills, which break the monotony of the flatlands with their weathered, scrub-oak silhouettes against the wide Kansas sky. During the late afternoon, the light turns a bruised, honeyed gold, catching the dust that hangs in the air and casting long, skeletal shadows from the cottonwoods that guard the banks of the creek. This landscape remains raw and unadorned, a place where the earth feels ancient beneath the boots of those who work the soil, and the silence of the prairie is interrupted only by the low, insistent sigh of the wind shifting through the dry stalks.

Peru carries the quiet weight of a regional history rooted in the grit of the frontier and the boom-and-bust cycles of the nineteenth-century oil and agricultural expansions. While the local economy has long since faded from its early industrial intensity, the character of the place persists in the slow, deliberate pace of the remaining homesteads and the enduring resilience of the land. Residents find their recreation and connection to the wild in the nearby Hulah Wildlife Management Area, a expanse of habitat that draws the quiet observer, or they might seek the stillness of the water at Sedan City Lake. Life here is measured by the changing seasons of the wheat fields and the subtle shifts in the weather, with the deeper, more sheltered contours of Sorghum Hollow serving as a reminder of the geologic forces that shaped this corner of the state long before the first fence lines were drawn.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hulah Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.2 mi, 183° S
Hulah Lake (Recreation Area) — 8.1 mi, 181° S
Caney Valley Speedway (Attraction) — 9.5 mi, 119° SE
Copan Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.6 mi, 133° SE
Copan Lake (Recreation Area) — 12.2 mi, 145° SE
Greater Flint Hills (Conservation Area) — 19.7 mi, 222° SW
Elk City State Park (State Park) — 20.0 mi, 058° NE
Greater Flint Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 20.5 mi, 218° SW
Montgomery State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 21.9 mi, 076° E
Le Hunt Cement Plant (Historic Ruins) — 22.2 mi, 055° NE
Osage Hills State Park (State Park) — 23.7 mi, 191° S
Bartlesville Art Assocations (Arts Centre) — 24.1 mi, 164° S
At&sf No.940 (Attraction) — 24.1 mi, 165° S
66 Sculpture (Monument) — 24.5 mi, 164° S
Civilian Conservtion Corps and Osage Hills State Park Pawhuska - Bartlesville, Oklahoma (Monument) — 24.7 mi, 192° S
Republic F-86 "Thunderstreak" (Attraction) — 25.1 mi, 094° E
Spencer/Rounds Performing Arts Theatre (Theatre) — 26.4 mi, 098° E
Dalton Defenders Museum (Museum) — 26.7 mi, 098° E
Blind Man at the Pool of Siloam (Public Artwork) — 26.7 mi, 163° S
Bartlesville Gravity Hill (Attraction) — 29.6 mi, 169° S
Osage County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 32.1 mi, 204° SW
Pawhuska Veteran Memorial (Monument) — 32.2 mi, 204° SW
Scouts Amphitheatre (Theatre) — 46.4 mi, 294° NW
Iron Horse Museum (Museum) — 48.8 mi, 069° E
Parsons Historical Museum (Museum) — 48.9 mi, 069° E
Woodson State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 49.4 mi, 016° N
Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum (Museum) — 54.1 mi, 040° NE
Marland Manson (Historic Castle / Fort) — 59.2 mi, 245° SW
Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 79.3 mi, 110° E · 8,813 acres

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