Ransom Kansas Map

About Ransom, Kansas

Ransom is a locality in Ness County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 260. The population density is 286.0 people per km². Ransom is located at 38.6361°N, 99.9337°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Ransom is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67572.

Ransom occupies a stretch of high, open prairie where the horizon pulls the sky downward until the two seem to touch in a seamless line of pale, shifting blue. It lies 36.8 miles west-southwest of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 243°T), and is situated 29.0 miles southwest of Ellis. Bazine Dry Creek carves a shallow, intermittent path through the earth a mile away, its banks lined with the silhouettes of cottonwoods that shiver whenever the wind moves across the plains. The land here holds a quiet, austere beauty, especially at dusk when the light turns thin and amber, casting long shadows from the fence posts that mark the edges of vast, cultivated fields. Eleven miles out, the landscape finds a different texture near the Cedar Bluff Reservoir and the rugged, broken ground of Goat Canyon, which interrupt the flatness with sudden, weathered depressions and ridges. To the north, the distant rise of Round House Rock anchors the vista, a solitary marker in a country defined by its sheer, unobstructed breadth.

History in Ransom remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the persistent, unyielding nature of the soil. The local economy persists through the rhythm of grain production, reflecting a legacy of hard-won resilience that defines the identity of those who call these plains home. Life here moves at the steady pace of the seasons, far removed from the frantic pulse of larger centers, sustained instead by the proximity of the Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area where the natural grasses remain undisturbed by the plow. Residents often look toward the weather with a practiced gaze, knowing that the wind is the primary architect of the local experience, shaping the way the dust settles and how the summer heat hums against the siding of the buildings. Every structure in Ransom bears the mark of this environment, standing as a plain, functional response to a landscape that demands both patience and a deep, quiet endurance from its inhabitants.

About This Ransom Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ransom, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.636125, -99.933734. 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 Ransom includes the ZIP code (67572), telephone area code (785), county seat of Ness County (Ness City), and school district assignment (Western Plains Unified School District 106).

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.