Explore Seward, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Seward, 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 Seward.
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 | Seward |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Stafford County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 38.177791 |
| Longitude | -98.794811 |
| Population | 41 |
| Density | 61.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67576 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | St. John |
| School District | Macksville Unified School District 351 |
Seward exists as a quiet punctuation mark upon the expansive, flat canvas of the Kansas plains. It lies 13.0 miles south of Great Bend, KS (from Great Bend, KS: bearing 187°T), and is situated 16.5 miles east of Larned. The horizon here stretches with an unrelenting linearity, broken only by the occasional silhouette of a grain elevator or the thin, persistent line of cottonwoods marking the path of Antelope Creek four miles away. The light at dusk possesses a singular, bruised quality, casting long, violet shadows across the soil as the sun retreats behind the distant, hazy rise of Jenkins Hill. Everything in Seward feels exposed to the sky, where the wind acts as a constant, invisible architect, shaping the dust and directing the movement of the tall grasses that cling to the edges of the Great Bend Prairie.
Seward maintains a steady, deliberate pace, rooted in an economy that remains tethered to the cycles of the harvest and the resilience of the surrounding fields. The history of the settlement is marked by the enduring memory of the dry years, a legacy that has instilled a pragmatic, modest temper in those who work the land. While the modern world moves with a frantic velocity, life here follows the slow rotation of the seasons, occasionally interrupted by a trip to the quiet, open spaces of Langrehr Park or a drive toward the stillness of Park Smith Lake. Seward remains a place where the architecture of the past—simple, functional, and unadorned—stands in silent conversation with the vast, changing weather of the plains.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Seward, Kansas. Coordinates: 38.177791, -98.794811. 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 Seward includes the ZIP code (67576), telephone area code (785), county seat of Stafford County (St. John), and school district assignment (Macksville Unified School District 351).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |