THE SHERIDAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Plains and Breaks setting.
Sheridan County has 896 square miles of land in Kansas. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Sheridan County: Rolling Plains and Breaks, Flat to Rolling Plains.
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
Sheridan County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Plains and Breaks61.3%
- Flat to Rolling Plains38.7%
High Plains in Sheridan 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 ↗Finding your parcel within Sheridan County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sheridan County, including Solomon, Bowcreek, Hoxie. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sheridan County by land and water
The Census records 0.25 square miles of water within Sheridan County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Sheridan County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sheridan County has 1,041.8 times the land area of nearby Hoxie city (0.86 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Decatur County, Gove County, Graham County, Norton County, Thomas County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

