Girard, Kansas Weather
Girard, Kansas — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, aviation weather, radar and satellite imagery, soil and crop conditions for Girard, Crawford County.
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About Girard, Kansas
Girard rests on a gently rolling landscape, the earth a rich, fertile brown, often softened by a fine dust that settles on everything like a muted blessing. It lies 34.5 miles north-north-west of Joplin, MO (from Joplin, MO: bearing 329°T), and is situated 9.0 miles west-north-west of Frontenac. The sky above is vast, a boundless canvas where clouds drift in slow procession, catching the sun's slant in hues of rose and apricot as evening approaches. Here, the land is not dramatic, but possesses a quiet, enduring strength, a subtle resilience in the way the grasses bend and sway in the persistent breeze. The air carries the clean scent of turned soil and the distant, faint perfume of blooming wildflowers, a whisper of the natural world that surrounds the human endeavors within Girard. The history of Girard is deeply entwined with the earth it occupies, its founding spurred by the discovery of coal beneath these very fields. For decades, the rhythmic clang and rumble of mining operations were the heartbeat of this place, shaping its character and economy. While the deep seams have long since been exhausted, the legacy of those who worked the darkness remains, a quiet strength in the town's memory and the stoic faces of its residents. Today, agriculture continues to be a vital thread in the fabric of Girard, with fields of grain stretching towards the horizon, their golden heads nodding in unison under the wide Kansas sky. The local economy, though changed from its mining heyday, retains a grounded practicality, a focus on the enduring cycles of planting and harvest.
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| Location | Girard, Crawford County, Kansas |
| Coordinates | 37.51116°N, 94.838022°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 66743 |
| Area Code | 913 |
| Page generated | July 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Girard, Kansas Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Girard, Kansas, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, real-time aviation weather (live METAR and TAF reports from the nearest reporting airport, with a modeled estimate shown when no station is in range), precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Girard includes coordinates 37.511160°N, 94.838022°W, situated in Crawford County. ZIP code 66743. Telephone area code: 913. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. Aviation data is sourced from aviationweather.gov (NOAA), with a modeled estimate used where no nearby reporting station is available. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
