THE MCPHERSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Prairie Tableland setting.
McPherson County has 898.3 square miles of land in Kansas. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across McPherson County: Prairie Tableland, Smoky Hills, Great Bend Sand Prairie.
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
McPherson County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Prairie Tableland55.4%
- Smoky Hills41.7%
- Great Bend Sand Prairie2.9%
Finding your parcel within McPherson County
The atlas lists 35 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with McPherson County, including Lone Tree, Hayes, Empire. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
McPherson County by land and water
The Census records 2.32 square miles of water within McPherson County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to McPherson County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, McPherson County has 32 times the land area of nearby McPherson township (28.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dickinson County, Ellsworth County, Harvey County, Marion County, Reno County, Rice County, Saline County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.