THE CLARK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron Breaks setting.
Clark County has 974.6 square miles of land in Kansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Clark County: Canadian/Cimarron Breaks, Flat Tablelands and Valleys, Rolling Plains and Breaks.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Clark County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks62.4%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys26.5%
- Rolling Plains and Breaks11.2%
Central Great Plains in Clark 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 Clark County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Clark County, including Appleton, Englewood, Lexington. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Clark County by land and water
The Census records 2.55 square miles of water within Clark County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Clark County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Clark County has 576.4 times the land area of nearby Ashland city (1.69 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Comanche County, Ford County, Kiowa County, Meade County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

