THE STEVENS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Canadian/Cimarron High Plains setting.
Stevens County has 727.4 square miles of land in Kansas. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Stevens County: Canadian/Cimarron High Plains, Rolling Sand Plains, Flat to Rolling Plains, among others.
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.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Stevens County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Canadian/Cimarron High Plains62.8%
- Rolling Sand Plains29.9%
- Flat to Rolling Plains4%
- Moderate Relief Plains3.3%
Finding your parcel within Stevens County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stevens County, including Hugoton, Moscow. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stevens County by land and water
The Census records 0.01 square miles of water within Stevens County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Stevens County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stevens County has 347.2 times the land area of nearby Hugoton city (2.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Grant County, Haskell County, Morton County, Seward County, Stanton County within Kansas. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

