Woodruff Kansas Map

About Woodruff, Kansas

Woodruff is a locality in Phillips County, Kansas, United States. It is a small community with a population of 13. The population density is 2.5 people per km². Woodruff is located at 39.9928°N, 99.4265°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP code: 67661.

Woodruff emerges from the vast, golden expanse of the Kansas plains where the earth stretches toward a horizon defined by the persistent, restless motion of the wind. It lies 77.1 miles north of Hays, KS (from Hays, KS: bearing 356°T), and is situated 17.2 miles north-northwest of Phillipsburg. Prairie Dog Creek carves a shallow, verdant ribbon through the parched soil, its banks lined with the silver-leafed cottonwoods that lean away from the prevailing gusts as if in a perpetual, silent bow. To the west, the subtle rise of Sappa Peak breaks the flatness of the skyline, standing as a solitary sentinel over the surrounding basin, while the quiet waters of Wolf Reservoir Number 1 mirror the bruising purples and fiery oranges of a high-plains sunset. The air here holds a clarity that renders every distant fence line sharp against the pale, vaulted sky, grounding the landscape in a stillness that feels both ancient and immediate.

Woodruff remains tethered to the rhythmic cycles of the harvest, its economy a quiet reflection of the wheat-heavy fields that ripple under the midsummer sun. The legacy of the frontier persists in the weathered grain elevators that rise like monoliths above the tracks, remnants of an era when the railroad dictated the pulse of human commerce. Proximity to the Harlan County Recreation Area offers a rare reprieve from the intensity of agricultural labor, providing a space where the land is left to its own wild devices, undisturbed by the plow. Life in Woodruff moves with an unforced, deliberate pace, shaped by the demands of the seasons and a deep, quiet respect for the stubborn tenacity required to thrive on these open, windswept plains.

About This Woodruff Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Woodruff, Kansas. Coordinates: 39.992788, -99.42649. 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 Woodruff includes the ZIP code (67661), telephone area code (785), county seat of Phillips County (Phillipsburg), and school district assignment (Northern Valley Unified School District 212).

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.