THE STAFFORD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Great Bend Sand Prairie setting.
Stafford County has 792 square miles of land in Kansas. The mapped landscape region in Stafford County is Great Bend Sand Prairie.
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 Stafford County
The atlas lists 27 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stafford County, including Putnam, Ohio, Rose Valley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stafford County by land and water
The Census records 2.87 square miles of water within Stafford County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Stafford County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stafford County has 21.8 times the land area of nearby St. John township (36.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Barton County, Edwards County, Pawnee County, Pratt County, Reno County, Rice County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

