Virgil Kansas Map

About Virgil, Kansas

Virgil is a locality in Greenwood County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 48. The population density is 33.1 people per km². Virgil is located at 37.9809°N, 96.0103°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Virgil is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66870.

Virgil emerges from the tallgrass prairie as a singular point of permanence amidst the vast, shifting horizon of the Kansas plains. It lies 30.7 miles south-southeast of Emporia, KS (from Emporia, KS: bearing 162°T), and is situated 18.7 miles northeast of Eureka. The landscape surrounding Virgil is defined by the subtle, persistent push of the wind against the swaying stalks of native grasses, a rhythm that dictates the slow expansion of the sky. To the east, the Verdigris River cuts a wandering path through the earth, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that stand as the only vertical interruptions in an otherwise flat, expansive basin. Nine miles to the north, the rounded profile of Tipperary Hill catches the fleeting, amber light of sunset, casting a long, soft shadow that stretches across the pastures and farmland until the stars begin to claim the dark.

Virgil maintains a quiet existence tethered to the cycles of the soil and the legacy of the surrounding plains. The local economy remains deeply rooted in the stewardship of these acres, where the memory of the land is preserved in the nearby Hamiliton Fossil Quarry, a site that offers a window into the ancient, prehistoric life buried beneath the topsoil. While Birk Lake lies thirteen miles away, the daily pulse of Virgil is calibrated more by the seasonal demands of the harvest and the maintenance of the quiet roads that link the scattered homesteads. Life here moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, where the silence is not an absence of sound but a presence of space, allowing the shifting colors of the prairie to serve as the town’s primary clock.

About This Virgil Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Virgil, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.980862, -96.01027. 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 Virgil includes the ZIP code (66870), telephone area code (913), county seat of Greenwood County (Eureka), and school district assignment (Madison-Virgil Unified School District 386).

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.