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St. Francis Kansas Map

Explore St. Francis, 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 St. Francis, Kansas

How to Use This St. Francis, Kansas Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for St. Francis, 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 St. Francis.

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.

CitySt. Francis
StateKansas (KS)
CountyCheyenne County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude39.772215
Longitude-101.799897
Population1,263
Density569.0 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code67756
Area Code785
County SeatSt. Francis
School DistrictSt. Francis Community Schools Unified School District 297

About St. Francis, Kansas

St. Francis is a locality in Cheyenne County, Kansas, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,263. The population density is 569.0 people per km². St. Francis is located at 39.7722°N, 101.7999°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. St. Francis is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67756.

St. Francis anchors the high plains of the American Midwest, where the sky exerts a heavy, luminous pressure upon the earth. It lies 94.8 miles southeast of Sterling, CO (from Sterling, CO: bearing 128°T), and is situated 29.5 miles north of Goodland. The South Fork Republican River carves a shallow, meandering path through the landscape, its banks lined with the gnarled silhouettes of cottonwoods that catch the low, honeyed light of dusk. To the west, the distant outline of Roman Nose Ridge breaks the flat, wheat-horizon plains, serving as a faint reminder of the geological upheaval that shaped the region. The air here carries the dry, clean scent of cured grasses, and the horizon seems to stretch indefinitely, inviting a profound sense of solitude that settles into the marrow of the visitor.

St. Francis retains the quiet gravity of a place built by endurance, emerging from a history of homesteading that still informs the local character. Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the economy, with vast fields of grain defining the seasonal rhythm of the people who work the soil. Beyond the town limits, the St. Francis Wildlife Area offers a sanctuary for native flora and fauna, while the nearby Hells Canyon provides a stark, rugged contrast to the surrounding agricultural expanse. Residents sometimes seek the stillness of Leach Pond for a brief respite from the labor of the harvest, yet the collective focus remains fixed on the land. Life in St. Francis moves with the measured, deliberate pace of a long-settled frontier, defined by a stoic resilience that honors the difficult lessons of the past while looking steadily toward the next cycle of growth.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Motorcycle Museum (Museum) — 0.2 mi, 341° N
  • St. Francis Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.5 mi, 234° SW
  • Blue Ridge School (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 11.9 mi, 289° W
  • School Number 65 (ruins) (Historic Ruins) — 12.0 mi, 224° SW
  • South Fork Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.6 mi, 030° NE
  • South Republican Management Area (Nature Reserve) — 16.4 mi, 239° SW
  • Land and Sky (Attraction) — 17.3 mi, 336° NW
  • Texas Trail Canyon Historical Marker (Monument) — 17.6 mi, 350° N
  • KS CO NB tripoint (Monument) — 20.8 mi, 320° NW
  • Rock Creek State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 21.8 mi, 005° N
  • Bonny Lake State Park/South Republican State Wildlife Area (State Park) — 22.4 mi, 241° SW
  • Bonny Lake State Park (State Park) — 22.5 mi, 240° SW
  • Dundy County Museum (Museum) — 23.7 mi, 036° NE
  • Willow Park (Local Park) — 28.6 mi, 171° S
  • Goodland Swimming Pool Park (Local Park) — 30.1 mi, 170° S
  • World's Largest Easel (Attraction) — 30.4 mi, 170° S
  • Giant Reproduction of Three Sunflowers In A Vase (Public Artwork) — 30.4 mi, 170° S
  • Wray Museum (Museum) — 30.8 mi, 314° NW
  • Sherman State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 39.6 mi, 180° S
  • Little House Museum (Museum) — 39.7 mi, 049° NE
  • Veterans' Memorial (Monument) — 40.4 mi, 086° E
  • Midway Theater (Cinema) — 40.8 mi, 218° SW
  • Swanson Lake (Resource Management Area) — 42.2 mi, 052° NE
  • Enders Reservoir (Resource Management Area) — 46.3 mi, 015° N
  • Chase County Museum (Museum) — 48.2 mi, 003° N
  • Mount Sunflower (Attraction) — 53.4 mi, 194° S
  • Sappa Park (Local Recreation) — 68.8 mi, 086° E
  • Jerusalem Hills Fee (Conservation Area) — 73.2 mi, 145° SE

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About This St. Francis Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of St. Francis, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.772215, -101.799897. 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 St. Francis includes the ZIP code (67756), telephone area code (785), county seat of Cheyenne County (St. Francis), and school district assignment (St. Francis Community Schools Unified School District 297).

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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.