Plains, Kansas

Plains population, 2020 to 2024

Plains lost 33 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Plains covers 1.00 square miles of land, for 1,006 people per square mile of land. The median Kansas place of 5,000+ has 1,527, so Plains is less dense than the typical town.

What county Plains is in

All of Plains's residents live in Meade County, which had 3,892 residents in 2024. Plains holds 25.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Plains

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Plains by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 67869. 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 Plains is

The Census internal point of Plains is at 37.264200, -100.589800. Topeka, the capital, is 293.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Meade, KS (1,436 people), 13.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Amarillo, TX, 158.7 miles away.

Daylight in Plains

At 37.26° N, Plains gets about 14 h 44 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 36 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 08 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Plains

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Kansas, measured between internal points. The closest is Meade, 13.6 miles away, with 1,436 people.