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Vining Kansas Map

Explore Vining, 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 Vining, Kansas

How to Use This Vining, Kansas Map

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

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.

CityVining
StateKansas (KS)
CountyWashington County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneCentral Time (America/Chicago)
Latitude39.566943
Longitude-97.295309
Population43
Density77.6 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code66937
Area Code913
County SeatWashington
School DistrictClifton-Clyde Unified School District 224

About Vining, Kansas

Vining is a locality in Washington County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 43. The population density is 77.6 people per km². Vining is located at 39.5669°N, 97.2953°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Vining is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66937.

Vining occupies a quiet stretch of the Kansas plains where the horizon pulls the sky taut over endless, wheat-dusted earth. It lies 44.7 miles north-northwest of Junction City, KS (from Junction City, KS: bearing 326°T), and is situated 19.6 miles east of Concordia. Scribner Creek carves a shallow, winding path through the soil nearby, its banks lined with the pale, shivering leaves of cottonwoods that catch the low light of dusk. The air here holds a heavy, dry stillness, broken only by the persistent, rhythmic push of the wind that seems to possess the very fiber of the landscape. Far to the south, the Twin Mounds rise as soft, rounded shadows against the vastness, marking the distance with a gentle, earthen permanence that defines the scale of the world for anyone standing in the open fields.

Vining emerged from the quiet ambition of early settlers who looked at the tallgrass and saw a future carved from the sod. The economy remains tethered to the slow, deliberate cycle of the harvest, where the health of the community rises and falls with the color of the grain and the arrival of the rain. Life here moves with the gravity of a place that remembers the hard years of the past, maintaining a stoic independence that resists the frantic pace of the wider world. While Reed Park offers a distant sanctuary fifteen miles away, the true character of Vining is found in the simple geometry of its roads and the steady, unadorned endurance of its people as they navigate the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Strawberry (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 012° N
  • Utility Park (Local Park) — 15.9 mi, 147° SE
  • Fairgrounds Ball Park (Local Recreation) — 16.8 mi, 144° SE
  • Cloud County Historical Museum (Museum) — 19.4 mi, 271° W
  • Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 19.5 mi, 271° W
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 19.5 mi, 270° W
  • Union Pacific Depot (Museum) — 19.5 mi, 272° W
  • Brown Grand Opera House (Theatre) — 19.6 mi, 271° W
  • Milford Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 20.1 mi, 147° SE
  • Milford Lake (Recreation Area) — 22.6 mi, 144° SE
  • Republic County Historical Society (Museum) — 24.8 mi, 313° NW
  • Train caboose (Museum) — 24.8 mi, 313° NW
  • Amphitheatre (Arts Centre) — 25.6 mi, 316° NW
  • High Banks Racing Museum (Museum) — 25.6 mi, 315° NW
  • Washington State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 25.9 mi, 020° N
  • Sixth Principal Meridian (Monument) — 30.3 mi, 353° N
  • Tuttle Creek State Parks (State Park) — 30.7 mi, 107° E
  • Jamestown Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 31.7 mi, 279° W
  • Ottawa State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 33.9 mi, 205° SW
  • Magic School (Historic Ruins) — 34.5 mi, 134° SE
  • Rose Creek Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 34.6 mi, 004° N
  • Monument to the Ice Age (Attraction) — 34.8 mi, 077° E
  • Alcove Spring (Viewpoint) — 35.1 mi, 069° E
  • Pony Express Rider (Public Artwork) — 39.2 mi, 061° NE
  • Locomotive 6072 (Attraction) — 43.9 mi, 140° SE
  • Site of Old Up Turntable and Roundhouse (Attraction) — 44.3 mi, 145° SE
  • Site of old Union Pacific Engine Shops (Attraction) — 44.3 mi, 145° SE
  • C.L. Hoover Opera House (Theatre) — 44.7 mi, 146° SE
  • Lovewell State Park (State Park) — 45.3 mi, 300° NW
  • Saline Fsa (National Wildlife Refuge) — 57.0 mi, 007° N · 124 acres

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About This Vining Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Vining, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.566943, -97.295309. 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 Vining includes the ZIP code (66937), telephone area code (913), county seat of Washington County (Washington), and school district assignment (Clifton-Clyde Unified School District 224).

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.