THE LEAVENWORTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Osage Cuestas setting.
Leavenworth County has 463.4 square miles of land in Kansas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Leavenworth County: Osage Cuestas, Loess and Glacial Drift Hills, Missouri Alluvial Plain, among others.
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
Leavenworth County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Osage Cuestas88.4%
- Loess and Glacial Drift Hills7.8%
- Missouri Alluvial Plain2.7%
- Nebraska/Kansas Loess Hills1%
Western Corn Belt Plains in Leavenworth County
Glacial till plains and windblown loess hills make up the Western Corn Belt landscape. Near-level and rolling terrain are interspersed with steeper river valleys and hills.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Leavenworth County
The atlas lists 18 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Leavenworth County, including Tonganoxie, Stranger, Alexandria. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Leavenworth County by land and water
The Census records 5.54 square miles of water within Leavenworth County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Leavenworth County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Leavenworth County has 9.5 times the land area of nearby Stranger township (48.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Atchison County, Douglas County, Jefferson County, Johnson County, Wyandotte County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

