Speed Kansas Map

About Speed, Kansas

Speed is a locality in Phillips County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 37. The population density is 95.9 people per km². Speed is located at 39.6772°N, 99.4209°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Speed is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67661.

Speed emerges from the high, flat expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon is a thin, unwavering pencil line drawn against the sky. It lies 55.4 miles north of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 355°T), and is situated 7.5 miles southwest of Phillipsburg. The North Fork Solomon River carves a quiet, serpentine path through the earth less than a mile from the center of Speed, its banks lined with the rough, silver-leafed cottonwoods that lean into the prevailing wind. During the long, golden afternoons, the light here possesses a singular, heavy clarity, casting elongated shadows across the stubble of harvested fields and turning the native grasses into a sea of muted bronze. Beyond these immediate plains, the silhouette of Blue Mound marks the distant edge of the world, a silent, earthen sentinel watching over a landscape defined by its immense, unyielding sky and the rhythmic, seasonal turning of the soil.

Agriculture remains the singular heartbeat of the local economy, a tradition of tilling and harvest that has persisted since the first homesteaders broke the heavy sod. The legacy of these early settlers is marked by the enduring, utilitarian architecture of the region, where the labor of the past remains visible in the weathered grain elevators that rise like monoliths above the flat terrain. Residents often find their respite at City Park, a modest stretch of green seven miles away, or seek the stillness of Logan City Lake, located nine miles from the center of activity. Life in Speed follows the slow, deliberate cadence of the seasons, a place where the wind acts as a constant companion to the labor of the field and the quiet, steady persistence of a life lived close to the ground.

About This Speed Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Speed, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.677231, -99.420934. 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 Speed includes the ZIP code (67661), telephone area code (785), county seat of Phillips County (Phillipsburg), and school district assignment (Phillipsburg Unified School District 325).

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.