THE LABETTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Osage Cuestas setting.
Labette County has 645.4 square miles of land in Kansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Labette County: Osage Cuestas, Cherokee 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
Labette County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Osage Cuestas90.7%
- Cherokee Plains9.3%
Finding your parcel within Labette County
The atlas lists 22 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Labette County, including Mound Valley, Osage, Hackberry. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Labette County by land and water
The Census records 7.73 square miles of water within Labette County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Labette County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Labette County has 380.5 times the land area of nearby Altamont city (1.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cherokee County, Crawford County, Montgomery County, Neosho County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

