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Plains Kansas Map

Explore Plains, 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 Plains, Kansas

How to Use This Plains, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	37.260299
Longitude	-100.592652
Population	1,037
Density	400.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67869
Area Code	785
County Seat	Meade
School District	Kismet-Plains Unified School District 483

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About Plains, Kansas

Plains is a locality in Meade County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,037. The population density is 400.8 people per km². Plains is located at 37.2603°N, 100.5927°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Plains is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67869.

Plains stretches across a vast, amber-hued expanse where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 23.5 miles northeast of Liberal, KS (from Liberal, KS: bearing 50°T), and is situated 51.5 miles south-southeast of Garden City. The horizon remains an unwavering line, interrupted only by the distant, hazy silhouette of Twin Hills that marks the edge of the world. In the quiet hours of dusk, the light turns a bruised violet, softening the sharp edges of the prairie grass and lending a temporary, fragile grace to the irrigation pivots that mark the fields. Water is a precious, deliberate presence here, found in the slow, meandering path of Shorts Creek as it cuts through the dry soil, its banks lined with the persistent, silver-leafed cottonwoods that thrive in the arid silence.

Economic life in Plains revolves around the rigorous, seasonal pulse of agriculture, a cycle that has dictated the rhythm of daily labor for generations. The legacy of the land is etched into the collective memory, where the lessons of endurance from the era of the Dust Bowl still inform how the community tends to its crops and guards its soil. Beyond the cultivated rows of grain, the landscape offers a different kind of sanctuary at the Meade Wildlife Area, where the native grasses shift in the wind like a deep, terrestrial tide. Life in Plains moves with a sturdy, unadorned honesty, defined by the long view of the horizon and the quiet necessity of keeping watch over the fields that sustain it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Meade Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.5 mi, 128° SE
Meade State Park (State Park) — 10.0 mi, 127° SE
Arkalon Park (State Recreation Area) — 10.4 mi, 243° SW
Liberal Baseball Fields (Local Recreation) — 22.3 mi, 230° SW
Light Park (Local Park) — 23.1 mi, 232° SW
CRIP Depot (Attraction) — 23.7 mi, 230° SW
Blue Bonnet Park (Local Park) — 23.9 mi, 232° SW
Stauth Memorial Museum (Museum) — 24.7 mi, 019° N
Beaver River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 27.4 mi, 179° S
Beaver Dunes (Local Recreation) — 28.7 mi, 172° S
Big Beaver (Public Artwork) — 30.9 mi, 173° S
Seoul Canal Pump (Viewpoint) — 39.9 mi, 011° N
Santa Fe Trail Remains Lookout (Attraction) — 42.5 mi, 031° NE
Clark State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 45.1 mi, 078° E
Balko School (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 45.7 mi, 193° S
Santa Fe 1139 Steam Locomotive (Attraction) — 46.2 mi, 042° NE
Boot Hill Museum (Museum) — 46.2 mi, 042° NE
Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame and Gunfighters Wax Museum (Museum) — 46.3 mi, 042° NE
ATSF Dodge City Depot (Attraction) — 46.4 mi, 043° NE
B&B Dodge City Village 8 (Cinema) — 47.6 mi, 041° NE
Optima Lake (Recreation Area) — 49.5 mi, 217° SW
Finney County Historical Museum (Museum) — 50.7 mi, 343° N
Lee Richardson Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 50.7 mi, 343° N
Cimarron National Grassland (National Grassland) — 50.7 mi, 270° W · 109k acres
Herbert and Bonnie Clutter family memorial (Monument) — 55.0 mi, 337° NW
Old Hardesty 1886-1906 (Monument) — 55.6 mi, 217° SW
Route of Jones & Plummer Trail (Monument) — 55.7 mi, 176° S
Museum of the Plains (Museum) — 59.9 mi, 191° S

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