THE PHILLIPS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Plains and Breaks setting.
Phillips County has 885.9 square miles of land in Kansas. The mapped landscape region in Phillips County is Rolling Plains and Breaks.
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
Finding your parcel within Phillips County
The atlas lists 35 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Phillips County, including Belmont, Plainview, Rushville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Phillips County by land and water
The Census records 8.69 square miles of water within Phillips County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Phillips County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Phillips County has 25.8 times the land area of nearby Phillipsburg township (34.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Graham County, Norton County, Rooks County, Smith County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

