THE ELLSWORTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Smoky Hills setting.
Ellsworth County has 715.6 square miles of land in Kansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Ellsworth County: Smoky Hills, Rolling Plains and Breaks.
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.
Regional context: Central Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Ellsworth County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Smoky Hills89.9%
- Rolling Plains and Breaks10.1%
Finding your parcel within Ellsworth County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ellsworth County, including Empire, Lincoln, Black Wolf. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ellsworth County by land and water
The Census records 7.71 square miles of water within Ellsworth County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Ellsworth County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ellsworth County has 264.2 times the land area of nearby Ellsworth city (2.71 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barton County, Lincoln County, McPherson County, Rice County, Russell County, Saline County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.