Freeman-Zumbrunn House · Photo: SharonPapierdreams · CC BY-SA 4.0Noble Township has 7.5 miles of mapped trails, 0.2 for every square mile of land
OpenStreetMap doesn’t show named parks or mapped trails in Noble Township yet. Know a trail or a town park? Anyone can add it to OpenStreetMap, and it shows up here on the next refresh.
Ahead of 6% of U.S. towns. What drives it
What kind of outdoors town is Noble Township?
Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.
How much outdoors does Noble Township have?
On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Noble Township is ahead of 6% of U.S. towns. All four inputs are below most U.S. towns; trail miles come closest.
Few Kansas towns conserve much land (a typical one, 2%; the U.S., 4%), so Noble Township’s under 1% is ahead of 5% of Kansas towns, while its trails per square mile lead 50% of them.
PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →
Conserved land, trails & bike routes
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1 places to go in Noble Township
Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.
0.0 miles of bike routes
Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.
Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.
3 places on the National Register
The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).
The walking year in Noble Township
NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daylight (h) | 9.7 | 10.7 | 11.8 | 13.2 | 14.3 | 14.9 | 14.6 | 13.7 | 12.4 | 11.1 | 10.0 | 9.4 |
| High (°F) | 41 | 46 | 57 | 67 | 77 | 87 | 92 | 89 | 82 | 69 | 55 | 43 |
| Rain (in) | 0.7 | 1.1 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
January is the driest month (0.7 in) and July the warmest (highs of 92 °F). 5.0 inches fall in May, the wettest month. Summer highs reach 92 °F, too hot for the outline. The climate in Noble Township →
Noble Township and its neighbors
Noble Township has the second most mapped trails of the 4 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.
| Town | Conserved of land | Trail mi per sq mi | Park acres per 1,000 | Near a park ½ mile | Outdoors |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noble Township | under 1% | 0.2 | under 1 | under 1% | D |
| Smoky Hill Township | 27% | 0.4 | 166 | 1% | B+ |
| Rinehart Township | — not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town | ||||
| Fragrant Hill Township | — not graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town | ||||
The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.
Questions about parks and trails in Noble Township
How much of Noble Township is conserved land?
under 1% of its land, against a typical 2% for a Kansas town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.
Is there public land near Noble Township?
16,260 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Noble Township or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), almost none of it inside the town line.
How much outdoors does Noble Township have?
Ahead of 6% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade. The grade combines the share of land that is conserved, miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, park acres per 1,000 residents and the share of residents within a half mile of a park. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
Trail talk
Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Noble Township neighbors.
Where this page comes from
Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →