What is the geography of Lawrence, Kansas?
Lawrence is located at (38.959902, -95.253199). This is about 25 miles (40 km) west of Kansas City Metropolitan AreaKansas City, and about 20 miles (30 km) east of Topeka. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 74.3 square kilometrekm sq (28.7 square miles). 72.8 km sq (28.1 mi sq) of it is land and 1.5 km sq (0.6 mi sq) is water, including Potter Lake on the KU campus. The total area is 2.06% water. Google Earth, software that allows the user to “fly” over the surface of the earth, mapped with high-quality satellite photography and accurate topographical data, has a default position when started up that is centered exactly on the town of Lawrence (specifically on Meadowbrook Apartments, lying between Compton Square and Regency Place). This may be verified by running the software and zooming in from the default start position without rotating the virtual globe at all. This location was set by Brian McClendon, a 1986 graduate of the University of Kans
