THE GRANT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flat to Rolling Plains setting.
Grant County has 574.8 square miles of land in Kansas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Grant County: Flat to Rolling Plains, Moderate Relief Plains, Rolling Sand Plains, among others.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Grant County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flat to Rolling Plains84.8%
- Moderate Relief Plains11.2%
- Rolling Sand Plains2.8%
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains1.1%
Finding your parcel within Grant County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Grant County, including Ulysses. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Grant County by land and water
The Census records 0.34 square miles of water within Grant County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Grant County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Grant County has 178.1 times the land area of nearby Ulysses city (3.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Finney County, Hamilton County, Haskell County, Kearny County, Stanton County, Stevens County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

