THE RUSSELL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Smoky Hills setting.
Russell County has 886.3 square miles of land in Kansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Russell County: Smoky Hills, 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
Where the landscape changes
Russell County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Smoky Hills56.5%
- Rolling Plains and Breaks43.5%
Finding your parcel within Russell County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Russell County, including Paradise, Center, Plymouth. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Russell County by land and water
The Census records 13.2 square miles of water within Russell County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Russell County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Russell County has 17.9 times the land area of nearby Russell township (49.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barton County, Ellis County, Ellsworth County, Lincoln County, Osborne County, Rush County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.