THE HODGEMAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Plains and Breaks setting.
Hodgeman County has 860 square miles of land in Kansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Hodgeman County: Rolling Plains and Breaks, Flat to Rolling Plains.
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
Hodgeman County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Plains and Breaks90.7%
- Flat to Rolling Plains9.3%
High Plains in Hodgeman County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Hodgeman County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hodgeman County, including Center, Sterling, Marena. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hodgeman County by land and water
The Census records 0.32 square miles of water within Hodgeman County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Hodgeman County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hodgeman County has 6 times the land area of nearby Center township (144.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Edwards County, Finney County, Ford County, Gray County, Ness County, Pawnee County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

