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Willis Kansas Map

Explore Willis, 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 Willis, Kansas

How to Use This Willis, Kansas Map

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

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

Latitude	39.725004
Longitude	-95.505814
Population	24
Density	56.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	66434
Area Code	913
County Seat	Hiawatha
School District	South Brown County Unified School District 430

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About Willis, Kansas

Willis is a locality in Brown County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 24. The population density is 56.5 people per km². Willis is located at 39.7250°N, 95.5058°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Willis is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 66434.

Willis emerges from the vast, open expanse of the plains where the sky claims more territory than the earth itself. It lies 23.3 miles west-northwest of Atchison, KS (from Atchison, KS: bearing 299°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south of Hiawatha. Hazel Creek carves a subtle, winding path through the soil, its presence marked by the silver-green shivering of cottonwoods that lean toward the water’s edge. The light here arrives with a startling, unadorned clarity, bleaching the wheat-horizon fields into shades of pale straw and deep, bruised gold as the sun retreats. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of Lookout Mountain anchors the horizon, a reminder of the rising terrain that eventually leads toward the Glacier Uplands. The air carries the dry, persistent scent of turned earth and wild grass, a stillness that feels less like an absence of movement and more like a held breath waiting for the wind to shift.

Willis maintains a quiet, steady rhythm tied to the cycles of the harvest and the slow turn of the season. Economic life remains anchored in the stubborn fertility of the soil, where the legacy of earlier generations persists in the weathered grain elevators and the grid of gravel roads that divide the landscape into precise, geometric parcels. Residents sometimes travel eight miles toward the Noble Ball Park & Hiawatha Aquatic Center for recreation, yet the local character is defined by the self-contained patience of those who remain. History in Willis is not written in grand monuments but in the way the architecture reflects the necessity of shelter against the open sky, and the occasional detour to Clear Creek Lake offers a rare, reflective stillness for the traveler. Life here moves with a deliberate, unassuming grace, colored by the memory of seasons past and the quiet expectation of the next crop.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Historic Caretakers Cabin (Historic Ruins) — 3.1 mi, 195° S
Crucifix (Public Artwork) — 4.1 mi, 167° S
Noble Ball Park & Hiawatha Aquatic Center (Local Park) — 8.2 mi, 354° N
HCC Art at the Barn (Arts Centre) — 8.3 mi, 011° N
Windmill Lane (Museum) — 8.4 mi, 354° N
Brown County Ag Museum (Museum) — 8.5 mi, 354° N
Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 8.6 mi, 357° N
Davis Memorial (Monument) — 8.6 mi, 356° N
Elizabeth Krebs Mother of Modern Halloween (Monument) — 8.6 mi, 356° N
Hiawatha Area Arts and Theater Society (Theatre) — 8.9 mi, 349° N
Brown County Historical Society and Museum (Museum) — 8.9 mi, 349° N
Historic Brown County Jail (Museum) — 8.9 mi, 349° N
Frances Sewell Plamann History Center (Museum) — 9.0 mi, 349° N
Bruning Park (Local Recreation) — 9.2 mi, 343° N
Brown State Fishing Lake And Wildlife Area (State Recreation Area) — 10.6 mi, 040° NE
Brown State Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 10.8 mi, 039° NE
Leary Site (Historic Ruins) — 20.0 mi, 017° N
Brown (Bob) Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 20.7 mi, 040° NE
Perry Lake (Recreation Area) — 21.1 mi, 182° S
Holton Community Theatre (Theatre) — 21.7 mi, 214° SW
Perry Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 22.1 mi, 179° S
Nelson Rogers Residence (Attraction) — 22.6 mi, 079° E
Muchnic Gallery (Gallery) — 23.3 mi, 117° SE
The Lookout (Viewpoint) — 23.5 mi, 116° SE
Riverbreaks Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 23.9 mi, 050° NE
Kansas Historical Marker - Troy (Attraction) — 24.5 mi, 079° E
Big Lake State Park (State Park) — 25.3 mi, 016° N
Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.0 mi, 031° NE · 15k acres
Lewis And Clark State Park (State Park) — 27.0 mi, 119° SE
Farm Service Agency Interest Of Mo (National Wildlife Refuge) — 42.1 mi, 060° NE · 3,906 acres

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