THE POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flint Hills setting.
Pottawatomie County has 840.7 square miles of land in Kansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Pottawatomie County: Flint Hills, Loess and Glacial Drift Hills.
Rolling limestone and shale hills are divided by narrow valleys. The Flint Hills preserve extensive tallgrass-prairie landscapes, with rocky uplands contrasting with the smoother cropland regions nearby.
Regional context: Flint Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Pottawatomie County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flint Hills92.9%
- Loess and Glacial Drift Hills7.1%
Western Corn Belt Plains in Pottawatomie County
Glacial till plains and windblown loess hills make up the Western Corn Belt landscape. Near-level and rolling terrain are interspersed with steeper river valleys and hills.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Pottawatomie County
The atlas lists 35 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pottawatomie County, including Pottawatomie, Green, Blue Valley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pottawatomie County by land and water
The Census records 20.9 square miles of water within Pottawatomie County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Pottawatomie County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pottawatomie County has 23.4 times the land area of nearby Union township (36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Jackson County, Marshall County, Nemaha County, Riley 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.

