THE PHILLIPS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flat to Rolling Plains setting.
Phillips County has 687.9 square miles of land in Colorado. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Phillips County: Flat to Rolling Plains, Rolling Sand Plains.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Phillips County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flat to Rolling Plains85.4%
- Rolling Sand Plains14.6%
Finding your parcel within Phillips County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Phillips County, including Holyoke, Haxtun, Amherst. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Phillips County by land and water
The Census records 0.12 square miles of water within Phillips County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Phillips County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Phillips County has 278.2 times the land area of nearby Holyoke city (2.47 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Logan County, Sedgwick County, Yuma County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

