Scammon Kansas Map

About Scammon, Kansas

Scammon is a locality in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 376. The population density is 231.5 people per km². Scammon is located at 37.2776°N, 94.8250°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Scammon is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66773.

Scammon occupies a low-slung stretch of the Kansas prairie where the earth seems to exhale a quiet, persistent heat under the vast, unblinking sky. It lies 11.3 miles southwest of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 216°T), and is situated 7.6 miles north of Columbus. Little Cherry Creek slices through the tallgrass nearby, its banks fringed with the pale, shivering leaves of cottonwoods that mark the water’s path like a ragged thread of ink on a map. To the horizon, the land holds a steady, rhythmic flatness, broken only by the distant silhouette of Bell Mound rising seven miles away like a dormant sentinel. The light here at dusk is heavy and gold, catching the dust that rises from the unpaved roads and hanging in the air until the shadows of the Mined Land Wildlife Area stretch long and jagged across the fields.

Scammon grew from the deep, dark veins of coal that once defined the labor and expectations of the region, leaving behind a scarred but resilient landscape that has slowly surrendered to the slow reclamation of the wild. These old pits and excavated ridges have transformed into the dense, irregular terrain of the Mined Land Wildlife Area, where the scars of the past now shelter quiet pockets of timber and water. The economy has long since shifted away from the soot-stained intensity of the mines, leaving Scammon to find its own pace in the stillness of the plains. Life moves in accordance with the wind and the changing seasons, a steady routine far removed from the clamor of the wider world, where the memory of heavy machinery has faded into the soft, persistent growth of the prairie grasses.

About This Scammon Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Scammon, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.277557, -94.82496. 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 Scammon includes the ZIP code (66773), telephone area code (913), county seat of Cherokee County (Columbus), and school district assignment (Columbus Unified School District 493).

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.