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Potwin Kansas Map

Explore Potwin, 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 Potwin, Kansas

How to Use This Potwin, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	37.938906
Longitude	-97.019756
Population	421
Density	691.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67123
Area Code	785
County Seat	El Dorado
School District	Remington-Whitewater Unified School District 206

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About Potwin, Kansas

Potwin is a locality in Butler County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 421. The population density is 691.7 people per km². Potwin is located at 37.9389°N, 97.0198°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Potwin is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67123.

Potwin reveals itself as a quiet confluence of prairie expanse and the persistent, low-slung course of Brush Creek, which carves a modest artery through the local terrain. It lies 12.0 miles northwest of El Dorado, KS (from El Dorado, KS: bearing 314°T), and is situated 19.2 miles east-southeast of Newton. The landscape surrounding Potwin stretches in wide, unadorned horizons where the sky exerts a heavy, vaulted pressure upon the earth, turning the afternoon light into a pale, bruised gold that catches the tops of bowing prairie grasses. Here, the wind is a constant surveyor of the land, shifting the dust and smoothing the edges of the flat, open plains that define the regional geography. To the east, the horizon occasionally hints at the distant, ancient rise of the Flint Hills, though the immediate vicinity remains defined by the patient, scrub-lined banks of Brush Creek and the expansive, uninterrupted stillness of the Kansas plains.

Potwin emerged from the ambitious grid of the late nineteenth century, serving as a functional pivot for the agricultural labor that has long anchored the local economy. While the bustling commerce of larger hubs remains distant, the pulse of the local life is measured in the rhythmic demands of the harvest and the steady maintenance of regional farmsteads. Residents occasionally travel toward the quiet recreational stretches of Harvey County East Park Lake, or seek the sparse, shaded retreats of Martin Park to escape the unrelenting sun of the high plains. The character of Potwin is distilled into these small, pragmatic movements, where the weight of historical industry lingers in the weathered siding of grain-heavy structures and the unhurried, deliberate pace of a life lived in accordance with the turning of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Walter's Pumpkin Patch (Attraction) — 9.0 mi, 076° E
Stapleton Oil Well Number 1 (Monument) — 9.3 mi, 134° SE
El Dorado State Park (State Park) — 11.6 mi, 116° SE
Butler Community College Theater (Theatre) — 11.8 mi, 141° SE
E.B. White Gallery (Gallery) — 11.8 mi, 140° SE
Eye on the Prairie (Public Artwork) — 11.9 mi, 135° SE
El Dorado Lake (Recreation Area) — 11.9 mi, 119° SE
Missouri Pacific El Dorado Depot (Attraction) — 12.3 mi, 131° SE
Harvey County Homeless & Indigent Persons Memorial (Monument) — 14.2 mi, 310° NW
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 16.4 mi, 203° SW
Andover District Stadium (Stadium) — 16.6 mi, 203° SW
Northeast Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 17.1 mi, 217° SW
Chisholm Trail 8 (Cinema) — 17.6 mi, 284° W
Old Frisco Augusta Depot (Attraction) — 18.1 mi, 173° S
Chisholm Creek Park (Local Park) — 18.8 mi, 225° SW
Mennonite Settler statue (Monument) — 19.8 mi, 292° W
Unknown Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 20.2 mi, 298° NW
Kauffman Museum (Museum) — 20.2 mi, 298° NW
Valley Center Cultural and Historical Museum (Museum) — 20.5 mi, 249° W
ATSF Florence Depot (Attraction) — 21.3 mi, 014° N
Wichita State University - Lowell D Holmes Museum of Anthropology (Museum) — 21.3 mi, 224° SW
Cassoday Museum (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 071° E
Wichita Community Theatre (Theatre) — 22.6 mi, 221° SW
CityArts (Gallery) — 24.0 mi, 225° SW
Marion Lake (Recreation Area) — 29.5 mi, 352° N
Butler State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 32.0 mi, 147° SE
Chase State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 37.1 mi, 038° NE
Cheney State Park (State Park) — 42.6 mi, 253° W
Cheney Wildlife Area (National Conservation Area) — 42.9 mi, 252° W · 16k acres
Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 61.3 mi, 063° NE · 37k acres

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