Baxter Springs, Kansas

Baxter Springs population, 2020 to 2024

Baxter Springs lost 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +6.

Baxter Springs covers 3.15 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,220 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Baxter Springs is less dense than the typical town.

What county Baxter Springs is in

All of Baxter Springs's residents live in Cherokee County, which had 19,133 residents in 2024. Baxter Springs holds 20.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Baxter Springs

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Baxter Springs by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 66713. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Baxter Springs is

The Census internal point of Baxter Springs is at 37.020000, -94.735000. Topeka, the capital, is 149.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Miami, OK (12,886 people), 11.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, AR, 72.8 miles away.

Daylight in Baxter Springs

At 37.02° N, Baxter Springs gets about 14 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 37 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 05 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Baxter Springs

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Galena, 6.7 miles away, with 2,767 people.