Pomona Kansas Map

About Pomona, Kansas

Pomona is a locality in Franklin County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 884. The population density is 361.6 people per km². Pomona is located at 38.6083°N, 95.4516°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Pomona is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66076.

Pomona anchors itself firmly amidst the vast, undulating prairie where the sky claims more territory than the earth. It lies 9.9 miles west of Ottawa, KS (from Ottawa, KS: bearing 267°T), and is situated 18.4 miles southwest of Baldwin City. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar, heavy clarity, bleaching the tallgrass to a pale straw color by late summer and casting long, sharp shadows that seem to stretch toward the horizon. Only a mile away, the Marais des Cygnes River carves a slow, deliberate path through the landscape, its banks lined with cottonwoods that shudder and sigh whenever the persistent wind decides to shift. The distant Sand Hills rise nine miles off like a bruised smudge against the clouds, providing a rugged, jagged contrast to the otherwise flat, fertile expanses that define the regional character.

Pomona maintains a quiet, steady pulse, shaped by the cycles of the soil and the enduring memory of the plains. While the local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of agriculture, the community finds a different kind of quietude six miles away at the Pomona Recreation Area, where the land opens up for those seeking a reprieve from the labor of the fields. Nearby Capps Lake mirrors the vast Kansas sky, offering a glassy stillness that settles over the region during the blue hours of dusk. Life in Pomona moves with an unforced gravity, rooted in a history of persistence where the daily work of maintaining the land serves as both the foundation and the primary occupation of the inhabitants.

About This Pomona Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pomona, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.608344, -95.451646. 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 Pomona includes the ZIP code (66076), telephone area code (913), county seat of Franklin County (Ottawa), and school district assignment (West Franklin Unified School District 287).

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.