THE LOGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Plains and Breaks setting.
Logan County has 1,073 square miles of land in Kansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Logan County: Rolling Plains and Breaks, Flat to Rolling Plains, Moderate Relief 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
Logan County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Plains and Breaks33.7%
- Flat to Rolling Plains33.5%
- Moderate Relief Plains32.9%
High Plains in Logan 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 Logan County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Logan County, including Russell Springs, Western, Elkader. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Logan County by land and water
The Census records 0.11 square miles of water within Logan County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Logan County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Logan County has 1,517.7 times the land area of nearby Russell Springs city (0.71 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gove County, Scott County, Sherman County, Thomas County, Wallace County, Wichita County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

