Wabaunsee Kansas Map

About Wabaunsee, Kansas

Wabaunsee is a locality in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 104. The population density is 29.6 people per km². Wabaunsee is located at 39.1461°N, 96.3461°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 66547.

Wabaunsee emerges from the vast, undulating expanse of the prairie, where the horizon stretches thin and taut against a sky that seems to possess a weight and clarity found nowhere else. It lies 12.4 miles east-southeast of Manhattan, KS (from Manhattan, KS: bearing 102°T), and is situated 4.4 miles south-southwest of Wamego. The land here acts as a slow, deliberate heave of earth, characterized by the persistent presence of tallgrass that bows in rhythmic unison whenever the wind sweeps across the plains. To the north, the Kansas River cuts a singular, dark ribbon through the landscape, its banks lined with the silver-leafed shimmer of cottonwoods that mark the turning of the seasons. While Grant Ridge looms as a faint, jagged suggestion of stone against the western sky, the immediate terrain dips into the quiet, sheltered folds of Tabor Valley, where the air holds a stillness that feels heavy with the scent of damp soil and ancient, sun-baked stone.

Wabaunsee carries the quiet gravity of a place that has long watched the slow migration of seasons and the shifting fortunes of the soil. Agriculture remains the quiet pulse of the local economy, though the modern rhythm of the day is often punctuated by the distant, low hum of machinery moving across fields that have been tilled for generations. Those seeking the shade of a canopy or a moment of stillness frequently travel the short distance to Wamego City Park, a green refuge that serves as a common ground for the surrounding region. Life here is not measured by the frantic pace of industry, but by the subtle gradations of color in the wheat as it ripens, or the way the light catches the limestone foundations of the older buildings when the sun begins its long, amber descent toward the earth.

About This Wabaunsee Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wabaunsee, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.146109, -96.346109. 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 Wabaunsee includes the ZIP code (66547), telephone area code (913), county seat of Wabaunsee County (Alma), and school district assignment (Wamego Unified School District 320).

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.