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Smith Center Kansas Map

Explore Smith Center, 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 Smith Center, Kansas

How to Use This Smith Center, Kansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Smith Center, 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 Smith Center.

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	Smith Center
State	Kansas (KS)
County	Smith County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	39.779179
Longitude	-98.785075
Population	1,571
Density	478.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	66967
Area Code	913
County Seat	Smith Center
School District	Smith Center Unified School District 237

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About Smith Center, Kansas

Smith Center is a locality in Smith County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,571. The population density is 478.4 people per km². Smith Center is located at 39.7792°N, 98.7851°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Smith Center is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66967.

Smith Center occupies a vast, sun-bleached expanse where the horizon pulls the sky taut against the flat, unyielding earth. It lies 68.6 miles north-northeast of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 25°T), and is situated 28.7 miles east of Phillipsburg. The landscape around Smith Center is defined by a rigorous, horizontal geometry, where the wind scours the soil and dictates the lean of every fence post and row of winter wheat. Two miles to the west, East Beaver Creek carves a slow, muddy path through the silt, its banks lined with the gnarled, silver-barked skeletons of cottonwoods that shiver in the constant, restless air. Beyond the immediate fields, the terrain shifts into a series of subtle, dry swells, eventually rising toward the distant, hazy silhouette of Lookout Mountain, which marks the edge of the world against a bruise-colored dusk.

History here is not found in grand monuments, but in the limestone blocks of the county courthouse, which stands as a heavy, gray anchor amidst the shifting agricultural tides. Smith Center maintains a quiet, industrial pulse tethered to the cycles of the harvest, with the local economy rooted in the stubborn resilience of deep-plow farming and the seasonal rhythm of the grain elevator. Farther afield, the Limestone Bluffs Wildlife Management Area offers a rugged sanctuary of prairie grass and rock, a stark contrast to the managed utility of the surrounding farms. Life in Smith Center follows the slow, deliberate turn of the seasons, occasionally interrupted by the drive to Hawkins Reservoir, where the silence of the water provides a brief, liquid respite from the dry, unending expanse of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Statue of Liberty Replica (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 180° S
Geographic Center of the Contiguous United States (Attraction) — 11.4 mi, 073° E
Limestone Bluffs Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.2 mi, 342° N
Walronds Stockade (Monument) — 16.8 mi, 163° S
Kirwin Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 19.9 mi, 245° SW
Sod and Stubble (Monument) — 22.7 mi, 145° SE
Glen Elder Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 23.0 mi, 149° SE
Franklin County Museum (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 339° N
Glen Elder Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 25.9 mi, 140° SE
World's Largest Ball of Sisal Twine (Attraction) — 26.4 mi, 135° SE
Glen Elder State Park (State Park) — 28.1 mi, 129° SE
Guide Rock Diverson Dam (State Recreation Area) — 28.5 mi, 046° NE
Harlan County Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 28.6 mi, 310° NW
Majestic Theatre (Cinema) — 28.6 mi, 267° W
Harlan County Lake (Recreation Area) — 29.5 mi, 313° NW
Waconda Springs Replica (Attraction) — 30.0 mi, 128° SE
Bison Statue (Public Artwork) — 30.9 mi, 127° SE
Rooks State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 38.3 mi, 228° SW
Nuckolls County Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 41.7 mi, 066° NE
Webster State Park (State Park) — 42.3 mi, 235° SW
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 51.6 mi, 165° S
Roy and Clara Miller's Park (Attraction) — 51.6 mi, 165° S
Heritage Room Museum (Museum) — 56.4 mi, 056° NE
Phelps County Historical Museum (Museum) — 56.7 mi, 327° NW
Frager Field (Historic Ruins) — 59.1 mi, 039° NE
Art Center (Arts Centre) — 60.1 mi, 021° N
Brown Grand Opera House (Theatre) — 61.3 mi, 103° E
Harlow Studio & Gallery (Gallery) — 61.4 mi, 146° SE
Hall County Waterfowl Production Area (National Wildlife Refuge) — 67.2 mi, 005° N · 642 acres

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