Stark Kansas Map

About Stark, Kansas

Stark is a locality in Neosho County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 69. The population density is 162.4 people per km². Stark is located at 37.6900°N, 95.1430°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Stark is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66775.

Stark occupies a quiet expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a vast, shifting sky. It lies 30.8 miles northwest of Pittsburg, KS (from Pittsburg, KS: bearing 309°T), and is situated 17.2 miles east of Chanute. The landscape around Stark is defined by the steady, rhythmic presence of the tallgrass prairie, punctuated by the occasional silhouette of a cottonwood tree leaning toward the path of Little Canville Creek, which meanders through the earth just a mile away. When the afternoon sun begins to slant low, the grasses take on a pale, burnished gold, and the air carries the scent of dry soil and cooling limestone. Far to the west, the subtle rise of Long Mound marks the distant edge of the view, an anchor for the eyes in a terrain that otherwise favors the horizontal sweep of earth and wind.

Stark remains deeply tethered to the cycles of the agricultural season, with the local economy shifting to the hum of machinery during harvest and the quiet dormancy of winter. The history of the area is written in the endurance of its people, who have long looked toward the Bourbon Wildlife Area seven miles away as a preserved remnant of the original prairie character. For those looking to the water, the quiet shores of Nyman Lake provide a stillness that mirrors the pace of daily life in Stark, where the clock is often set by the weather rather than the hour. It is a place where the work of the day is done under a wide, unobstructed dome of blue, leaving the residents to measure their time by the slow, deliberate turning of the fields.

About This Stark Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Stark, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.690046, -95.143033. 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 Stark includes the ZIP code (66775), telephone area code (913), county seat of Neosho County (Erie), and school district assignment (Erie-Galesburg Unified School District 101).

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.