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Shallow Water Kansas Map

Explore Shallow Water, 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 Shallow Water, Kansas

How to Use This Shallow Water, Kansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Shallow Water, 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 Shallow Water.

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	Shallow Water
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Scott County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	38.373632
Longitude	-100.912931
Population	89
Density	69.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	67871
Area Code	785
County Seat	Scott City
School District	Scott County Unified School District 466

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About Shallow Water, Kansas

Shallow Water is a locality in Scott County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 89. The population density is 69.4 people per km². Shallow Water is located at 38.3736°N, 100.9129°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 67871.

Shallow Water occupies a vast, level expanse where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 27.9 miles north of Garden City, KS (from Garden City, KS: bearing 356°T), and is situated 7.5 miles south of Scott City. The horizon stretches in a flat, relentless line, broken only by the thin, vertical silhouettes of grain elevators and the occasional stand of cottonwoods shivering along the banks of White Woman Creek. To the west, the distant profile of Devils Backbone offers a jagged, blue-gray suggestion of elevation, a faint reminder of the geological upheaval that exists far beyond these sediment-rich plains. A quiet stillness defines the atmosphere, particularly near the shallow depression of Rocky Draw, where the dry, sun-baked soil holds the heat of the afternoon long after the light has begun to deepen into a bruised violet.

Shallow Water remains a place defined by the heavy, rhythmic labor of agriculture, where the prosperity of the season is written in the gold of wheat stalks and the turning of the soil. History here is kept in the weathered faces of the buildings and the collective memory of a landscape that once tested the endurance of early settlers against the persistent, scouring wind. While Palmer Park provides a rare, quiet sanctuary for local flora and fauna, the true character of Shallow Water is found in its isolation, a solitude shared with the distant, stagnant waters of Dry Lake. Life moves at the pace of the harvest, an unadorned existence that finds its own spare elegance in the way the morning sun illuminates the dust motes dancing over miles of fallow, fertile ground.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Palmer Park (Local Park) — 6.9 mi, 007° N
Patton Park (Local Park) — 7.0 mi, 003° N
El Quartelejo Museum (Museum) — 7.6 mi, 358° N
Battle of Punished Woman's Fork (Monument) — 18.7 mi, 358° N
Scott State Park (State Park) — 19.5 mi, 359° N
Scott Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.3 mi, 357° N
Forest Park Lake (Local Recreation) — 26.6 mi, 176° S
Herbert and Bonnie Clutter family memorial (Monument) — 26.8 mi, 189° S
Concannon State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 27.8 mi, 140° SE
Statue of Liberty Historical marker (Public Artwork) — 28.0 mi, 176° S
Lee Richardson Zoo (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 28.6 mi, 176° S
Finney County Historical Museum (Museum) — 28.7 mi, 175° S
Finney Game Refuge (State Conservation Area) — 28.8 mi, 178° S
Smoky Valley Ranch (Conservation Area) — 29.8 mi, 352° N
Jerusalem Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 30.0 mi, 358° N
Finney State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 33.3 mi, 113° SE
Kearny County Rodeo Grounds (Attraction) — 36.1 mi, 214° SW
Kansas Historical Marker: Homestead of a Genius (Attraction) — 39.0 mi, 082° E
Butterfield Trail Museum (Museum) — 39.9 mi, 339° N
Seoul Canal Pump (Viewpoint) — 45.2 mi, 146° SE
Horace Greeley Museum (Museum) — 45.8 mi, 279° W
Logan County World War Memorial (Monument) — 52.1 mi, 004° N
Fick Fossil and History Museum (Museum) — 52.2 mi, 003° N
Castle Rock (Attraction) — 52.4 mi, 050° NE
Santa Fe Trail Remains Lookout (Attraction) — 56.1 mi, 136° SE
B&B Dodge City Village 8 (Cinema) — 63.7 mi, 130° SE
Cedar Bluff State Park (State Park) — 66.5 mi, 065° NE

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