Rock Kansas Map

About Rock, Kansas

Rock is a locality in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 94. The population density is 90.7 people per km². Rock is located at 37.4403°N, 97.0064°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 67131.

Rock emerges from the expansive Kansas plains as a quiet collection of weathered structures anchored to the earth by the steady, unyielding presence of the tallgrass prairie. It lies 13.9 miles north of Winfield, KS (from Winfield, KS: bearing 358°T), and is situated 16.1 miles east-southeast of Derby. The horizon stretches thin and taut, a pale line where the sky presses down upon the undulating landscape, occasionally broken by the dark, vertical silhouettes of cottonwoods that congregate near the banks of Rock Creek. To the west, the distant, hazy outlines of the Cup and Saucer Hills rise against the twilight, their forms softened by the persistent movement of wind that shapes the character of the soil and the temperament of the air. Light here possesses a particular clarity, catching the dry grasses at dusk to burn with a brief, copper brilliance before the long, shadow-filled quiet of evening takes hold.

Agriculture has long defined the pulse of Rock, as the rhythms of sowing and harvest dictate the pace of life in a region where the land’s productivity is as cyclical as the turning seasons. While the local economy remains tethered to the surrounding fields, the legacy of the nineteenth-century rail era lingers in the way the streets are laid out, pointing toward a broader world that once relied on this corridor for the movement of grain and goods. Residents often look toward the Winfield City Lake Recreation Area or the quiet margins of Timber Creek Lake when they seek the stillness of water, finding a respite from the vastness of the wheat-horizon plains. Whether navigating the deep, textured soil near Turkey Gulch or observing the way the afternoon sun catches the dust of a gravel road, one recognizes that Rock is a place where history persists not in grand monuments, but in the enduring, patient habits of those who call the prairie home.

About This Rock Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rock, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.440299, -97.006426. 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 Rock includes the ZIP code (67131), telephone area code (785), county seat of Cowley County (Winfield), and school district assignment (Udall Unified School District 463).

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.