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Silver Lake Kansas Map

Explore Silver Lake, 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 Silver Lake, Kansas

How to Use This Silver Lake, Kansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Silver Lake, 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 Silver Lake.

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	Silver Lake
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Shawnee County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.104166
Longitude	-95.858598
Population	1,345
Density	922.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	66539
Area Code	913
County Seat	Topeka
School District	Silver Lake Unified School District 372

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About Silver Lake, Kansas

Silver Lake is a locality in Shawnee County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,345. The population density is 922.4 people per km². Silver Lake is located at 39.1042°N, 95.8586°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Silver Lake is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66539.

Silver Lake emerges from the flat, expansive horizon of the plains where the sky holds a vast, unblinking authority over the soil. It lies 10.4 miles west-northwest of Topeka, KS (from Topeka, KS: bearing 292°T), and is situated 13.0 miles east-southeast of St. Marys. Marys. The land here is defined by the steady, persistent flow of Ensign Creek, which cuts a narrow, shadowed path through the earth, fringed by the silver-barked cottonwoods that lean against the wind. To the west, the landscape rises toward the singular, rounded rise of Hickory Knob, a landmark that anchors the view against the shifting weather. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain dips into the quiet, sheltered basin of Toad Hollow, where the air grows still and the tallgrass hums with the resonance of the prairie. Light here does not merely fall; it settles, thick and golden, turning the harvested stubble into a mosaic of amber and burnt sienna before the long shadows of evening reclaim the ground.

Silver Lake maintains a quiet commerce rooted in the resilience of the Kansas earth, where the cycle of planting and harvest dictates the tempo of the passing seasons. Local life remains tethered to the rhythm of the land, drawing sustenance from the surrounding fields while looking toward the broader, more distant reaches of the region for connection. While Perry Lake lies nineteen miles to the east, the inhabitants often turn their attention to the local wilder spaces, such as the Green Wildlife Area, where the native ecosystem persists in its original, uncultivated form. The heritage of the place is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring utility of the soil and the way the community organizes itself around the changing color of the crops. It is a place of deliberate movement, where the collective memory of the dust and the drought tempered the people, leaving behind a hard-won patience that defines the character of those who remain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

West Lawn Memorial Gardens (Attraction) — 4.3 mi, 147° SE
Green Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 251° W
Kansas State Historical Society - Center for Historical Research (Museum) — 5.5 mi, 126° SE
Trail (Historic Ruins) — 5.6 mi, 127° SE
Kaw River State Park (State Park) — 5.8 mi, 116° SE
Family Park (Local Park) — 6.4 mi, 145° SE
Shawnee State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 7.1 mi, 021° N
Gage Park (Local Park) — 7.4 mi, 115° SE
Discovery Center of Kansas (Museum) — 7.6 mi, 118° SE
Topeka Land of Dreams (Public Artwork) — 7.7 mi, 127° SE
Topeka Art Guild Gallery (Arts Centre) — 8.1 mi, 132° SE
Collective Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 8.7 mi, 119° SE
Skyline Park - Burnett'S Mound (Local Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 136° SE
Clarion Woods Park (Local Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 141° SE
Warren Park (State Conservation Area) — 9.3 mi, 129° SE
Kansas Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 112° E
The Jayhawk State Theatre of Kansas (Theatre) — 10.5 mi, 111° E
Topeka Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 10.7 mi, 111° E
World War I Memorial (Monument) — 12.4 mi, 299° NW
St. Marys Vietnam Memorial (Monument) — 13.0 mi, 299° NW
The Lessman Farm & Truckhenge (Viewpoint) — 13.9 mi, 098° E
Perry Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 17.4 mi, 070° E
Perry Lake (Recreation Area) — 18.3 mi, 075° E
Perry State Park (State Park) — 19.0 mi, 082° E
Jackson County Museum (Museum) — 25.7 mi, 015° N
Missile Silo Home (Attraction) — 26.7 mi, 287° W
ATSF Osage City Depot Museum (Attraction) — 32.5 mi, 177° S
Locomotive #1073 (Attraction) — 34.5 mi, 105° E
Liberty Hall (Cinema) — 34.7 mi, 105° E
Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 52.0 mi, 187° S · 37k acres

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