THE BUTLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flint Hills setting.
Butler County has 1,429.7 square miles of land in Kansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Butler County: Flint Hills, Prairie Tableland.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Butler County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flint Hills79.8%
- Prairie Tableland20.2%
Central Great Plains in Butler County
These plains are lower and somewhat more irregular than the High Plains to the west. Their grassland setting includes rolling terrain and a transition toward greater rainfall in the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Butler County
The atlas lists 44 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Butler County, including Sycamore, Chelsea, Lincoln. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Butler County by land and water
The Census records 16.8 square miles of water within Butler County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Butler County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Butler County has 143.7 times the land area of nearby El Dorado city (9.95 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chase County, Cowley County, Elk County, Greenwood County, Harvey County, Marion County, Sedgwick County, Sumner County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

