THE MEADE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron Breaks setting.
Meade County has 978.1 square miles of land in Kansas. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Meade County: Canadian/Cimarron Breaks, Flat to Rolling Plains, Rolling Plains and Breaks, among others.
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Meade County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron Breaks34.8%
- Flat to Rolling Plains25.9%
- Rolling Plains and Breaks15.8%
- Flat Tablelands and Valleys9.4%
- Rolling Sand Plains8.6%
High Plains in Meade 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 ↗Central Great Plains in Meade County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Meade County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Meade County, including Mertilla, West Plains, Cimarron. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Meade County by land and water
The Census records 1.26 square miles of water within Meade County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Meade County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Meade County has 668.1 times the land area of nearby Meade city (1.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clark County, Ford County, Gray County, Haskell County, Seward County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

