Explore Zenda, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Zenda, 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 Zenda.
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 | Zenda |
| State | Kansas (KS) |
| County | Kingman County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 37.442241 |
| Longitude | -98.282015 |
| Population | 72 |
| Density | 124.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 67159 |
| Area Code | 785 |
| County Seat | Kingman |
| School District | Cunningham Unified School District 332 |
Zenda emerges from the expansive Kansas plains as a quiet intersection of earth and sky, defined by the persistent, restless movement of the wind across miles of open wheat fields. It lies 46.9 miles south-southwest of Hutchinson, KS (from Hutchinson, KS: bearing 204°T), and is situated 16.8 miles south-southwest of Kingman. The landscape here favors the horizontal, where the horizon stretches thin and taut, broken only by the occasional silhouette of a cottonwood tracing the path of Kemp Creek just a short distance away. At dusk, the light loses its harsh clarity, softening into a bruised violet that settles heavily over the flat terrain, turning the dried stubble of the fields into a landscape of muted gold and gray. To the west, the distant rise of the Gypsum Hills provides a faint, jagged anchor to an otherwise seamless expanse, while the air remains sharp and dry, stripped of any moisture by the vast, inland reach of the prairie.
Zenda survives as a testament to the endurance of agrarian labor, where the rhythm of the seasons dictates the pulse of daily life more than the ticking of a clock. The economy remains tethered to the soil, reflecting a history of hard-won yields and the enduring memory of years when the dust seemed to claim the very sky. While the Byron Walker Wildlife Area offers a sanctuary of wilder grasses and untamed flora thirteen miles out, the local character is defined by the steady, pragmatic persistence of those who work the grain elevators and maintain the quiet streets. Life proceeds without fanfare or spectacle, finding its own meaning in the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest, and in the rare, deep stillness that descends when the wind finally relents, leaving the land to dream in the dark.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Zenda, Kansas. Coordinates: 37.442241, -98.282015. 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 Zenda includes the ZIP code (67159), telephone area code (785), county seat of Kingman County (Kingman), and school district assignment (Cunningham Unified School District 332).
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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |