Description: Detailed large political map of Kansas State, USA showing cities, towns, counties, road intersections, highways such as US highways and State routes.
Map of Kansas, Kansas map with cities, counties, and roads network. This Map of Kansas is a detailed map that emphasizes the whole grid of counties, their administrative capitals (county seats), major cities and towns, the neighboring states on each side, and a few clean road links for orientation. It is precisely the kind of Kansas map with cities, counties, and road network people search for when they want a county-by-county view rather than a turn-by-turn road chart. The colored county blocks make boundaries obvious, the county seats are labeled in a consistent style, and thin red lines provide minimal interstate and U.S. route references so readers can position each county without clutter. That balance makes this one of the best map layouts for residents, travelers, teachers, and geography students.
The frame of the map is simple to hold in mind. Colorado sits to the west, Nebraska to the north, Missouri to the east, and Oklahoma to the south. The state itself is a wide rectangle composed of 105 counties, each drawn as a square or near-square cell in the classic Kansas township grid. The far western edge is the High Plains; the middle third is the Smoky Hills and Arkansas River lowlands; and the east includes the Flint Hills, the glaciated northeast, and the Osage Cuestas. The river names printed on the map - Arkansas, Smoky Hill, Kansas, Republican, Big Blue, Neosho, Verdigris - help explain settlement lines without turning the graphic into a blue tangle.
Start on the Colorado line. In the northwest corner, Cheyenne County places its seat at St. Francis, a small junction town. Moving east along the Nebraska border, Rawlins places Atwood; Decatur shows Oberlin; Norton shows Norton itself; Phillips shows Phillipsburg; Smith shows Smith Center; Jewell shows Mankato; Republic shows Belleville; Washington shows Washington; Marshall shows Marysville; Nemaha shows Seneca; Brown shows Hiawatha; and Doniphan shows Troy at the Missouri River. A thin north ribbon of US-36 on the map helps you keep this chain in order without turning the page into a road atlas.
Drop one row south and return to the Colorado line. Goodland anchors Sherman County; Wallace County lists Sharon Springs; Greeley County lists Tribune. To the east are Thomas County with Colby, Logan County with Oakley, Gove County with Gove City and Quinter labeled, Trego County with WaKeeney, Ellis County with the regional hub Hays, Russell County with Russell, Ellsworth County with Ellsworth, Saline County with Salina, Dickinson County with Abilene, Geary County with Junction City, Riley County with Manhattan, Pottawatomie County with Westmoreland, Wabaunsee County with Alma, Shawnee County with the capital Topeka, Douglas County with Lawrence, and finally the metro counties at the Missouri line - Wyandotte showing Kansas City, KS and Bonner Springs, and Leavenworth County showing Leavenworth and Tonganoxie. The thin red I-70 line is present only to orient your eyes, as this middle belt carries many of the seats and college towns.
The southwest corner starts with Morton County and its seat, Elkhart, then Stanton County with Johnson City, Stevens County with Hugoton, Seward County with Liberal, Meade County with Meade, Clark County with Ashland, Comanche County with Coldwater, Barber County with Medicine Lodge, and Harper County with Anthony. The words Oklahoma and the fine red line of the state border make this zone easy to track. Across the same latitude but slightly east, you find Sumner County with Wellington, Cowley County with Winfield and Arkansas City, Chautauqua County with Sedan, Montgomery County with Independence and Coffeyville, Labette County with Oswego and nearby Parsons, and Cherokee County with Columbus and Baxter Springs along the Missouri line. The map labels Pittsburg in Crawford County and Fort Scott in Bourbon County to complete the southeast corner.
The central Kansas run west to east is a checkerboard of farm hubs and courthouse towns. Starting again near Colorado, Hamilton County lists Syracuse; Kearny County lists Lakin; Finney County lists the regional center Garden City; Gray County lists Cimarron; Ford County lists Dodge City with an unmistakable label; Hodgeman County lists Jetmore; Edwards County lists Kinsley; Pawnee County lists Larned; Stafford County lists St. John; Barton County shows Great Bend; Rice County shows Lyons and Sterling; McPherson County shows McPherson; Reno County shows Hutchinson; Harvey County shows Newton; Butler County shows El Dorado and Augusta; then the state’s largest city appears in bold as Wichita in Sedgwick County with nearby Derby and Haysville; next to the south are Kingman County with Kingman, Pratt County with Pratt, Kiowa County with Greensburg, Edwards and Stafford already noted, Harper with Anthony, and Sumner with Wellington tying the belt to the Oklahoma line. The light road links act like thin bookmarks, so readers always know where they are without overshadowing the county labels.
East-central Kansas shows the green swath of the Flint Hills and several rivers. County seats are easy to spot: Chase County has Cottonwood Falls; Morris County has Council Grove; Lyon County has Emporia where the map marks a turnpike symbol only for orientation; Greenwood County has Eureka; Elk County has Howard; Wilson County has Fredonia; Woodson County has Yates Center; Allen County has Iola; Anderson County has Garnett; Franklin County has Ottawa; Osage County has Lyndon with Osage City nearby; Coffey County has Burlington near John Redmond Lake; Linn County has Mound City; Miami County has Paola and Louisburg; and Johnson County has Olathe together with suburban cities Overland Park, Shawnee and Lenexa all shown in the metro cluster. To the north, the Kansas River valley carries Pottawatomie, Riley, Geary, Wabaunsee, Shawnee, and Douglas counties already mentioned, then Jefferson County with Oskaloosa, Jackson County with Holton, and Atchison County with Atchison north of the river.
The map makes the Missouri line unmistakable, with the multi-county Kansas City metro right along it. Wyandotte County holds Kansas City, KS, Bonner Springs and Edwardsville; Johnson County holds Olathe, Overland Park, Shawnee, Lenexa; Leavenworth County holds Leavenworth and Tonganoxie; Douglas County holds Lawrence; farther north Atchison County holds Atchison; Doniphan County holds Troy and Wathena overlooking the Missouri River; Brown County holds Hiawatha; and to the west Jefferson and Jackson provide the next county steps back toward Topeka. The roads here are mostly beltways and bridges, but the cartography keeps them thin so the county labels stay central.
A county map answers different questions than a driving map. Residents want to know which county a town belongs to for property, schools, and courts. Visitors need a statewide sense of where places sit relative to borders and rivers. Students and teachers trace historical settlement along a grid of seats and courthouses. This detailed map meets those needs by listing every county name and seat distinctly, pointing out larger cities only as context, and using just enough road network to tie the story together. Readers can jump from Hutchinson to Lyons to Great Bend without reading exit numbers; they can see that Emporia is the center of Lyon County and that Topeka sits in Shawnee County on the Kansas River; they can quickly place Garden City in Finney County near the Colorado panhandle and Pittsburg in Crawford County near Missouri. That is the heart of the best map experience for Kansas.
Use this as an index. Each line lists the county, its county seat (and one or two cities shown on the map when relevant), plus a short orientation note with river or border context only when it helps.
Cheyenne – St. Francis, far northwest on the Nebraska and Colorado corner.
Rawlins – Atwood; north tier west.
Decatur – Oberlin, north of the Prairie Dog Creek valley.
Sherman – Goodland; western tier with a rail crossing.
Wallace – Sharon Springs; south of the north line, open range.
Greeley – Tribune; small population at the Colorado line.
Thomas – Colby, regional service center in the west.
Logan – Oakley; Prairie County below Thomas.
Gove – Gove City and Quinter; Smoky Hill uplands.
Trego – WaKeeney; squarely on the central west grid.
Graham – Hill City; mixed cropland and grassland.
Sheridan – Hoxie; north-central western row.
Rooks – Stockton, Plainville; on the north slope of the Smoky Hills.
Phillips – Phillipsburg; north tier center.
Norton – Norton; north tier west of center.
Smith – Smith Center; near the geographic center of the continental U.S. marker.
Jewell – Mankato; north tier east-central.
Republic – Belleville, along the US-81 orientation line.
Washington – Washington; north tier above the Big Blue basin.
Ellis – Hays, a major university and medical center, is the county seat, clearly labeled.
Russell – Russell; seat near the Smoky Hill River.
Osborne – Osborne; west of Beloit.
Mitchell – Beloit; Solomon River valley.
Lincoln – Lincoln; often shown as Lincoln Center in records.
Cloud – Concordia; north of Salina on the US-81 axis.
Ottawa – Minneapolis; a small seat between Concordia and Salina.
Clay – Clay Center; it sits west of the Big Blue system.
Riley – Manhattan; college town north of I-70.
Pottawatomie – Westmoreland, across the river from Manhattan.
Geary – Junction City; between Milford Lake and the Kansas River.
Wabaunsee – Alma; Flint Hills foothills.
Dickinson – Abilene; Eisenhower’s boyhood hometown, clear label.
Saline – Salina; the dominant service center of the middle.
McPherson – McPherson; central manufacturing town.
Rice – Lyons and Sterling; a pair of towns shown on the map.
Ellsworth – Ellsworth and Kanopolis; on the Smoky Hill.
Barton – Great Bend; named for the bend in the Arkansas River.
Rush – La Crosse; southwest of Hays.
Pawnee – Larned; seat on a straight grid road.
Ness – Ness City; central west row.
Lane – Dighton; small seat along K-96 orientation line.
Scott – Scott City; west-central pivot irrigation region.
Finney – Garden City, a significant western hub shown prominently.
Kearny – Lakin; Arkansas River corridor.
Hamilton – Syracuse, at the Colorado border.
Edwards – Kinsley; midpoint between Dodge City and Great Bend.
Kiowa – Greensburg; rebuilt seat noted on the map.
Pratt – Pratt; county services for south-central.
Stafford – St. John, a farming county between Great Bend and Pratt.
Reno – Hutchinson; salt mines and fairgrounds city labeled clearly.
Harvey – Newton and Hesston, just north of Sedgwick County.
Marion – Marion and Hillsboro; map labels both.
Butler – El Dorado and Augusta; Flint Hills edge with refinery city.
Kingman – Kingman, west of Wichita.
Sedgwick – Wichita (with Derby and Haysville); the largest Kansas city cluster.
Sumner – Wellington; stretches to the Oklahoma line.
Cowley – Winfield and Arkansas City; the Arkansas River bend to Oklahoma.
Harper – Anthony and Harper; south-central ranch country.
Barber – Medicine Lodge; Gypsum Hills setting.
Comanche – Coldwater; quiet courthouse square.
Clark – Ashland; seat near the Cimarron corridor.
Meade – Meade and Fowler, west of the Pratt County belt.
Seward – Liberal; large seat near the state’s southern panhandle.
Haskell – Sublette; small seat on the western grid.
Grant – Ulysses; center of irrigated agriculture.
Stevens – Hugoton; natural gas region seat.
Stanton – Johnson City, next to the Colorado line.
Morton – Elkhart; tri-state corner seat.
Chase – Cottonwood Falls; seat tucked amid the tallgrass.
Morris – Council Grove; historic trail town.
Lyon – Emporia; labeled where the turnpike meets US-50 for context.
Osage – Lyndon with nearby Osage City; lake district labels appear.
Coffey – Burlington; John Redmond Lake is nearby on the map.
Greenwood – Eureka, on the rolling prairie.
Elk – Howard; quiet hill country seat.
Chautauqua – Sedan, near the Oklahoma border.
Wilson – Fredonia; Verdigris Valley.
Woodson – Yates Center; seat on the prairie square.
Allen – Iola, with Humboldt often noted nearby in regional contexts.
Neosho – Erie with Chanute labeled; both appear on the map.
Labette – Oswego and Parsons; a rail and college town pair.
Montgomery – Independence and Coffeyville; twin anchors near US-75.
Anderson – Garnett, between Ottawa and Iola.
Franklin – Ottawa; on the I-35 corridor for reference only.
Miami – Paola and Louisburg; feeds the Kansas City suburbs.
Linn – Mound City; Osage Cuestas edge.
Douglas – Lawrence, university seat on the Kansas River.
Shawnee – Topeka; state capital and county seat together.
Jefferson – Oskaloosa; between the river and Perry Lake.
Jackson – Holton, north of Topeka.
Atchison – Atchison; Missouri River bluffs.
Leavenworth – Leavenworth and Tonganoxie; military and historic district.
Wyandotte – Kansas City, Bonner Springs, Edwardsville; urban cluster.
Johnson – Olathe with Overland Park, Shawnee, Lenexa; suburban arc.
Pottawatomie, Riley, Geary, and Wabaunsee are already noted as the Kansas River chain.
Bourbon – Fort Scott; seat on the US-69 orientation line to Missouri.
Crawford – Girard with Pittsburgh, coal, and college area.
Cherokee – Columbus with Baxter Springs; tri-state crossroads.
Allen, Neosho, Labette, Montgomery, Wilson, and Woodson were covered above as the Verdigris and Neosho river set; the map presents them as a clear stair-step pattern toward the Missouri and Oklahoma lines.
This directory covers every county and the primary place labels readers see on the map. Short notes reference rivers, borders, and minimal route clues only so the county names and seats stay front and center.
Topeka is in Shawnee County on I-70 and I-470, where the Kansas Turnpike (I-335) meets the loop.
Johnson and Wyandotte, with Leavenworth and Miami often included, linked by I-435, I-70, I-35, I-635 and US-69.
I-70 statewide; I-35 from Oklahoma to Kansas City; I-135 Wichita to Salina; I-335 Emporia to Topeka; I-470 Topeka loop; I-235 Wichita loop; I-435 and I-635 in Kansas City.
In Sedgwick County at the junction of I-35 with I-135 and US-54 or US-400.
One hundred five counties, each labeled with its county seat.
I-135, concurrent with US-81.
I-70 east from the Colorado line through Goodland, Colby, Hays, Salina, Junction City, Topeka and Lawrence.
In Douglas County on I-70 Kansas Turnpike and US-59 along the Kansas River.
Manhattan is in Riley County; use K-177 from I-70 at Junction City; US-24 and K-18 serve the city.
In Lyon County where I-35 meets I-335 on the Kansas Turnpike, with US-50 crossing town.
In Reno County along US-50 and K-61 northwest of Wichita.
Garden City is in Finney County and Dodge City in Ford County, both on US-50 or US-400 and near US-83.
US-83, US-283 and US-183 connect the High Plains counties.
US-69 from the Oklahoma line through Pittsburg, Fort Scott, Louisburg and into Johnson County.
In Ellis County on I-70 with US-183.
In Saline County at the I-70 and I-135 junction, also on US-81.
From west to east: Cheyenne, Rawlins, Decatur, Norton, Phillips, Smith, Jewell, Republic, Washington, Marshall, Nemaha, Brown and Doniphan.
In east central Kansas across Chase, Morris, Wabaunsee, Lyon, Geary and Riley counties, with scenic K-177 between Emporia and Manhattan.
In Seward County in the southwest on US-54 at the junction with US-83.
Follow the Kansas Turnpike via I-335 southwest to Emporia, then I-35 to Wichita.
Pittsburg is in Crawford County on US-69 and US-160 near the Missouri line.
In Leavenworth County on the Missouri River; US-73 or K-7 connects it to the KC belt.
The Kansas River flows from Junction City through Manhattan, Topeka and Lawrence to Kansas City.
Along the northern tier from the Colorado line through St. Francis, Atwood, Norton, Phillipsburg, Smith Center, Belleville, Washington and Marysville to Hiawatha and Elwood.
In Barton County where US-56 and K-96 meet US-281 on the Arkansas River bend.
In Geary County on I-70 at US-77, west of Fort Riley.
Sedgwick with Butler, Harvey and Sumner commonly included; some maps also note Reno and Cowley.
In Atchison County on the Missouri River north of Leavenworth, reached by US-59 and US-73.
In Neosho County on US-169 with US-160.
Start with the I-70 and I-35 spines, then trace US-50, US-54 or US-400, US-36, US-81, US-83 and US-69, matching each corridor to county seats for easy navigation.
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