Explore Pierceville, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Pierceville, 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 Pierceville.
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 | Pierceville |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Finney County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.878356 |
| Longitude | -100.676822 |
| Population | 98 |
| Density | 18.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 67868, 67846 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Garden City |
| School District | Garden City Unified School District 457 |
Pierceville occupies a vast, level expanse of high plains where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the earth. It lies 12.5 miles east-southeast of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 121°T), and is situated 18.6 miles east-southeast of Holcomb. The Arkansas River carves a shallow, rhythmic path through the soil less than a mile from the center, its banks lined with the persistent, silver-leafed cottonwoods that lean into the constant western draft. Beyond the immediate riverbed, the land stretches in a quiet, monochromatic reach of wheat and fallow fields, a terrain defined by the absence of obstruction and the weight of an immense, blue-vaulted dome. The air here holds a dry, sharp clarity, especially as the late afternoon sun turns the dust of the fields into a fine, suspended gold that softens the hard edges of the horizon.
Pierceville emerged from the expansion of the rails and the rugged labor of homesteaders who broke the tough sod to claim a future in the grain markets. The economy remains tethered to the slow cycle of the harvest, with grain elevators standing as the primary architecture of the skyline, overseeing a landscape that prizes endurance over ornament. While the bustle of modern commerce drifts toward larger hubs, life here maintains a measured, deliberate pace, occasionally punctuated by weekend trips to the nearby Garcia Soccer Park or quiet excursions toward Wild Horse Lake. There is a profound stillness in the local character, a reflection of a history written in the resilience of those who stayed when the winds were harsh and the rains failed, leaving behind a place where the work of the day is measured by the length of the shadows on the plain.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pierceville, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.878356, -100.676822. 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 Pierceville includes the ZIP code (67868, 67846), telephone area code (785), county seat of Finney County (Garden City), and school district assignment (Garden City Unified School District 457).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |