Richfield Kansas Map

About Richfield, Kansas

Richfield is a locality in Morton County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 30. The population density is 11.5 people per km². Richfield is located at 37.2661°N, 101.7824°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Richfield is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67953.

Richfield occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse of the High Plains where the horizon stretches with a relentless, geometric clarity. It lies 49.9 miles west-northwest of Liberal, KS (from Liberal, KS: bearing 288°T), and is situated 32.0 miles southwest of Ulysses. The land here is defined by the subtle, rhythmic undulations of the prairie, broken only by the thin, intermittent veins of vegetation that follow the North Fork Cimarron River just a mile from the center. Within four miles, the terrain deepens into the basin of New Pasture Number Thirteen, a place where the grasses turn a brittle, pale gold under the persistent Kansas wind. The quality of light at dusk is particularly striking, catching the fine dust in the air to bathe the plains in a bruised, violet hue that makes the earth seem to expand until it touches the very edge of the sky.

Richfield bears the quiet gravity of a place that has weathered the cycles of drought and recovery, its economy tethered firmly to the resilience of the surrounding dryland farms. The legacy of the Santa Fe Trail, which passes nine miles away, lingers in the collective memory of the region, marking the area as a corridor of transit that eventually slowed into the steady, deliberate pace of agricultural life. Residents look toward the Cimarron National Grassland, only four miles distant, as a reminder of the original, unplowed character of the plains, while Wilburton Pond remains a modest, quiet landmark eight miles out. Life in Richfield moves in accordance with the seasons and the harvest, a persistent routine that finds its beauty in the sheer, unadorned space of the landscape and the quiet endurance of those who remain.

About This Richfield Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Richfield, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.266134, -101.782389. 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 Richfield includes the ZIP code (67953), telephone area code (785), county seat of Morton County (Elkhart), and school district assignment (Rolla Unified School District 217).

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.