Peru Kansas Map

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.

About This Peru Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Peru, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.088671, -96.09471. 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 Peru includes the ZIP code (67360), telephone area code (785), county seat of Chautauqua County (Sedan), and school district assignment (Chautauqua County Community Unified School District 286).

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.