THE CRAWFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Cherokee Plains setting.
Crawford County has 589.8 square miles of land in Kansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Crawford County: Cherokee Plains, Osage Cuestas, Wooded Osage Plains.
Irregular plains form a transition between northern agricultural country and more wooded uplands to the south and east. Grassland and forest historically mixed, with wider woodland belts beside streams.
Regional context: Central Irregular Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Crawford County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Cherokee Plains61.1%
- Osage Cuestas36.3%
- Wooded Osage Plains2.6%
Finding your parcel within Crawford County
The atlas lists 27 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crawford County, including Sherman, Sheridan, Lincoln. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crawford County by land and water
The Census records 5.24 square miles of water within Crawford County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Crawford County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crawford County has 9.7 times the land area of nearby Crawford township (60.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bourbon County, Cherokee County, Labette County, Neosho County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.