THE OSAGE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Osage Cuestas setting.
Osage County has 705.5 square miles of land in Kansas. The mapped landscape region in Osage County is Osage Cuestas.
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
Finding your parcel within Osage County
The atlas lists 26 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Osage County, including Burlingame, Olivet, Elk. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Osage County by land and water
The Census records 14.3 square miles of water within Osage County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to Osage County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Osage County has 790.9 times the land area of nearby Lyndon city (0.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Coffey County, Douglas County, Franklin County, Lyon County, Shawnee County, Wabaunsee County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

