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Protection Kansas Map

Explore Protection, 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 Protection, Kansas

How to Use This Protection, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	37.201414
Longitude	-99.484008
Population	498
Density	207.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67127
Area Code	785
County Seat	Coldwater
School District	Comanche County Unified School District 300

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About Protection, Kansas

Protection is a locality in Comanche County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 498. The population density is 207.4 people per km². Protection is located at 37.2014°N, 99.4840°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Protection is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67127.

Protection rises from the expanse of the plains like a quiet anchor held fast against the vast, shifting sky. It lies 48.0 miles southeast of Dodge City, KS (from Dodge City, KS: bearing 142°T), and is situated 53.3 miles north of Woodward.

Kiowa Creek carves a shallow, rhythmic path just a mile away, its banks marked by the silvered silhouettes of cottonwoods that shiver when the prairie wind gains force. To the west, the horizon holds the faint, bruised suggestion of the Red Hills, their reddish slopes providing a stark contrast to the golden, wheat-heavy fields that define the local topography. The light here possesses a peculiar, heavy clarity, especially in the late afternoon when the sun stretches the shadows of grain elevators and fence posts until they seem to touch the edge of the world. For those seeking a respite in the wilder reaches, the Cimarron Bluff Wildlife Management Area sits eighteen miles distant, offering a rugged sanctuary of native grasses and broken terrain.

Protection grew from the hard-won persistence of settlers who understood that the soil and the seasons were their only true masters. The local economy remains tethered to the pulse of the harvest, a cycle of planting and reaping that dictates the pace of every street and storefront. While Lake Coldwater lies eight miles away as a rare pocket of stillness in the arid landscape, the people of Protection find their daily rhythm in the steady, industrial hum of agriculture and the maintenance of their own quiet infrastructure. It is a place where history is not merely recounted but lived in the way the architecture clings to the earth, a testament to a resilience that has outlasted the dust and the dry years that once tested the very marrow of the Great Plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Comanche County Museum (Museum) — 9.8 mi, 061° NE
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 061° NE
Cimarron Bluff Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.6 mi, 163° S
Clark Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 20.3 mi, 313° NW
Clark State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 20.5 mi, 308° NW
Red Hills (Conservation Area) — 21.8 mi, 082° E
CRIP Depot (Attraction) — 25.8 mi, 340° N
Greensburg Big Well Country (Monument) — 29.3 mi, 018° N
Kiowa State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 29.9 mi, 019° N
Alabaster Caverns State Park (State Park) — 39.0 mi, 152° SE
Southern Plains Experimental Range (Recreation Easement) — 39.2 mi, 187° S
Black Smith (Public Artwork) — 39.7 mi, 233° SW
Military Road Crossing (Monument) — 43.4 mi, 188° S
Fort Supply Lake (Recreation Area) — 45.0 mi, 186° S
Santa Fe Caboose (Attraction) — 47.9 mi, 323° NW
ATSF Dodge City Depot (Attraction) — 48.0 mi, 323° NW
Santa Fe 1139 Steam Locomotive (Attraction) — 48.1 mi, 322° NW
Boot Hill Museum (Museum) — 48.2 mi, 322° NW
Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame and Gunfighters Wax Museum (Museum) — 48.3 mi, 322° NW
Ford Lake (Viewpoint) — 49.0 mi, 331° NW
B&B Dodge City Village 8 (Cinema) — 49.4 mi, 324° NW
Pageant Amphitheater at Memorial Peace Park (Theatre) — 51.5 mi, 084° E
Little Sahara State Park (State Park) — 54.4 mi, 144° SE
Stauth Memorial Museum (Museum) — 59.3 mi, 298° NW
Haun Museum (Museum) — 65.0 mi, 340° N
Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 72.4 mi, 115° SE · 42k acres
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ks (National Wildlife Refuge) — 77.9 mi, 041° NE · 232 acres

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