THE FORT RILEY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flint Hills setting.
Fort Riley CDP has 6.41 square miles of land in Geary County, Riley County. Its Census reference point is in Flint Hills.
Rolling limestone and shale hills are divided by narrow valleys. The Flint Hills preserve extensive tallgrass-prairie landscapes, with rocky uplands contrasting with the smoother cropland regions nearby.
Regional context: Flint Hills ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
One place name. 2 county geographies.
Fort Riley intersects 2 county geographies: Geary County, Riley County. A Fort Riley mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Fort Riley by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Fort Riley, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points lower than the 0.6% recorded for Kansas. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fort Riley CDP has 7.6 times the land area of nearby Grandview Plaza city (0.85 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

