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Rush Center Kansas Map

Explore Rush Center, 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 Rush Center, Kansas

How to Use This Rush Center, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	38.465291
Longitude	-99.310105
Population	141
Density	150.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67575
Area Code	785
County Seat	La Crosse
School District	LaCrosse Unified School District 395

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About Rush Center, Kansas

Rush Center is a locality in Rush County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 141. The population density is 150.8 people per km². Rush Center is located at 38.4653°N, 99.3101°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Rush Center is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67575.

Rush Center anchors itself upon the vast, flat expanse of the high plains, where the horizon stretches thin and taut like a pulled wire against the sky. It lies 28.6 miles south of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 178°T), and is situated 30.3 miles west-northwest of Great Bend. The landscape is defined by the unrelenting reach of open prairie, a terrain where the wind exerts a constant, invisible pressure against the bent grasses and the weathered siding of grain elevators. Only a mile away, the thin ribbon of Walnut Creek carves a shallow, verdant path through the dry soil, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that tremble at the slightest stir of the air. Light here does not merely fall; it accumulates, turning the late afternoon into a pale, bruised gold that illuminates the dust motes dancing above the quiet gravel tracks.

Rush Center carries the weight of a legacy tied to the soil, where the economy remains tethered to the seasonal pulse of wheat harvests and the steady, mechanical labor of agriculture. The collective memory of the region is etched into the architecture of the older buildings, which stand as enduring witnesses to the cycles of drought and bounty that have shaped the lives of its inhabitants for generations. Despite the isolation of the plains, there is a profound, meditative stillness in the way the local life unfolds, a rhythm dictated not by the clock, but by the slow, inevitable movement of the seasons across the earth. Far to the west, the distant, hazy shadow of Jenkins Hill provides the only interruption to the infinite flatness, serving as a silent, fixed point in a world that otherwise seems to shift and breathe with the passing clouds.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Historic Marker: Fort Hays/Fort Dodge Trail (Attraction) — 13.4 mi, 270° W
Christ Pilot Me Hill (Monument) — 17.9 mi, 267° W
Jordan Park (Local Park) — 21.9 mi, 148° SE
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 23.1 mi, 151° SE
Expo Center (Attraction) — 25.3 mi, 107° E
Train Highway (Public Artwork) — 27.1 mi, 003° N
Kansas Oil and Gas Museum (Museum) — 27.6 mi, 105° E
Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 28.7 mi, 355° N
Cheyenne Bottoms Fee (Conservation Area) — 29.0 mi, 088° E
Great Bend Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 30.1 mi, 102° E
Cedar Bluff Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 30.2 mi, 314° NW
Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 31.0 mi, 091° E
Cedar Bluff Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 31.2 mi, 315° NW
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 31.7 mi, 310° NW
Hodgeman State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 39.8 mi, 224° SW
Haun Museum (Museum) — 41.2 mi, 230° SW
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 44.5 mi, 115° SE · 44k acres
Kansas Historical Marker: Homestead of a Genius (Attraction) — 48.1 mi, 269° W
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Ks (National Wildlife Refuge) — 50.2 mi, 124° SE · 232 acres
Wilson Opera House (Theatre) — 51.5 mi, 061° NE
World's Largest Czech Egg (Attraction) — 51.5 mi, 061° NE
Wilson State Park (State Park) — 52.7 mi, 054° NE
Ford Lake (Viewpoint) — 55.4 mi, 217° SW
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 58.4 mi, 045° NE
Greensburg Big Well Country (Monument) — 59.4 mi, 181° S
Coronado-Quivira Museum (Museum) — 60.5 mi, 098° E
B&B Dodge City Village 8 (Cinema) — 61.1 mi, 219° SW
Culbertson Auditorium (Theatre) — 62.1 mi, 106° E
Kansas Teachers Hall of Fame and Gunfighters Wax Museum (Museum) — 62.6 mi, 218° SW
Meades Ranch Triangulation Station (Monument) — 66.5 mi, 038° NE

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