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Tescott Kansas Map

Explore Tescott, 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 Tescott, Kansas

How to Use This Tescott, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	39.008059
Longitude	-97.875598
Population	265
Density	265.1 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	67484
Area Code	785
County Seat	Minneapolis
School District	Twin Valley Unified School District 240

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About Tescott, Kansas

Tescott is a locality in Ottawa County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 265. The population density is 265.1 people per km². Tescott is located at 39.0081°N, 97.8756°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Tescott is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 67484.

Tescott emerges from the vast, open expanse of the Kansas plains where the horizon stretches into an unrelenting line of pale sky. It lies 18.3 miles northwest of Salina, KS (from Salina, KS: bearing 309°T), and is situated 12.0 miles southwest of Minneapolis. The Saline River carves a quiet, meandering path through the earth nearby, its presence marked by the silver-green leaves of cottonwoods that shiver in the constant, sweeping wind. Beyond the immediate banks of the river, the landscape flattens into an intricate patchwork of cultivated fields, occasionally interrupted by the subtle, earth-toned rise of distant terrain like North Pole Mound, which appears as a faint, muted silhouette against the dusk. When the sun dips low, the light catches the golden stalks of wheat, turning the entire valley into a shimmering, amber-hued sea of grain that seems to breathe with the rhythm of the seasons.

Tescott maintains a steady, deliberate pace, anchored by a history deeply rooted in the endurance of those who first broke the stubborn prairie sod. The local economy persists as a quiet dialogue between the ambition of modern agriculture and the memory of the soil, with silos standing as sentinels over the grain trade that drives the daily life of the residents. Those seeking a reprieve from the quiet industry of the fields sometimes venture toward the Saline State Fishing Lake, fourteen miles away, to find a stillness that matches the expansive sky. Here, the character of the people is forged in the silence between harvests, a pragmatism reflected in the sturdy, unadorned architecture that defines the streets where neighbors recognize every passing truck. It is a place where the weight of the sky and the breadth of the land demand a particular kind of patience, rewarding the observer with the quiet beauty of a world that remains largely unchanged by the clamor of the wider map.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Frontier in Lincoln County (Monument) — 12.1 mi, 277° W
Aardvark (Attraction) — 12.2 mi, 150° SE
Giant Anteater (Attraction) — 12.2 mi, 150° SE
Pronghorn (Attraction) — 12.2 mi, 151° SE
Mule Deer (Attraction) — 12.2 mi, 151° SE
Saline State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 13.7 mi, 122° SE
Post Rock Scout Museum (Museum) — 14.7 mi, 279° W
Crispin’s Drug Store Museum (Museum) — 14.7 mi, 279° W
Lincoln Art Center (Public Artwork) — 14.7 mi, 279° W
Harlow Studio & Gallery (Gallery) — 14.8 mi, 279° W
Lincoln County Historical Society (Museum) — 14.9 mi, 279° W
Ottawa State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 17.4 mi, 068° E
Lakewood Park Natural Area (Local Recreation) — 19.0 mi, 126° SE
Kenwood Park (Local Park) — 19.0 mi, 129° SE
Steve Fossett Plaza (Monument) — 19.3 mi, 140° SE
In Appreciation of Robert J. Paulette, P.E. (Monument) — 19.5 mi, 126° SE
Original Salina Airport (Historic Ruins) — 19.7 mi, 128° SE
AMC Salina 10 (Cinema) — 20.2 mi, 135° SE
East Crawford Recreation Area (Local Recreation) — 20.9 mi, 127° SE
Whiteford (Price) Archeological Site (Historic Ruins) — 21.1 mi, 119° SE
Kanopolis Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 22.0 mi, 203° SW
Kanopolis State Park (State Park) — 23.3 mi, 195° S
Kanopolis Lake (Recreation Area) — 24.1 mi, 196° S
Wilson State Park (State Park) — 33.4 mi, 259° W
Wilson Opera House (Theatre) — 34.6 mi, 249° W
World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things (Museum) — 35.7 mi, 276° W
Great Plains Theatre (Cinema) — 36.4 mi, 100° E
Glen Elder Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 38.9 mi, 323° NW
McPherson Valley Wetlands (State Conservation Area) — 41.6 mi, 171° S
Quivira National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 62.1 mi, 210° SW · 44k acres

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