Explore Silverdale, 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 Silverdale, 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 Silverdale.
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 | Silverdale |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Cowley County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.041975 |
| Longitude | -96.903367 |
| Population | 61 |
| Density | 22.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 67005 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Winfield |
| School District | Arkansas City Unified School District 470 |
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.
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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).
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. |