Silverdale Kansas Map

About Silverdale, Kansas

Silverdale is a locality in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 61. The population density is 22.7 people per km². Silverdale is located at 37.0420°N, 96.9034°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 67005.

Silverdale rises from the limestone bedrock where the tallgrass prairie stretches toward an infinite, pale horizon. It lies 7.6 miles east of Arkansas City, KS (from Arkansas City, KS: bearing 100°T), and is situated 14.6 miles south-southeast of Winfield. Grouse Creek carves a persistent, silver path through the landscape, its banks lined with the gnarled, protective silhouettes of cottonwood trees that lean against the constant push of the wind. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Cup and Saucer Hills fray the edge of the sky, while the immediate terrain remains defined by the Kaw Wildlife Area, where the earth yields to the quiet endurance of native flora and the sudden, darting flight of meadowlarks. The quality of light here, especially as it thickens into a bruised, golden violet at dusk, renders the limestone outcrops in shades of soft, weathered bone, grounding Silverdale in a stillness that feels both ancient and immediate.

Silverdale emerged from the hard labor of quarrying the very foundation upon which it stands, a history carved into the blocks of local stone that once formed the bones of regional architecture. While the economy has shifted away from the frantic pace of early extraction, the character of the place remains tethered to the land, shaped by the seasonal rhythms of agriculture and the maintenance of the vast, open plains. Residents occasionally venture toward the waters of Oknoname 071033 Reservoir or find solitude in the rugged depths of Baugh Canyon, yet the daily pulse of Silverdale is found in the slow, deliberate work of those who tend the fields and manage the wind-swept tracts. It is a locality where the past is not a museum piece but a layer of soil, visible in the enduring fences and the quiet, pragmatic habits of a people who have learned to measure time by the cycle of the crops and the shifting patterns of the Kansas sky.

About This Silverdale Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Silverdale, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.041975, -96.903367. 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 Silverdale includes the ZIP code (67005), telephone area code (785), county seat of Cowley County (Winfield), and school district assignment (Arkansas City Unified School District 470).

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.