Land Surveyor in Leavenworth County, Kansas

Leavenworth County is where the Kansas City suburbs meet open farm country. Its eastern edge follows the Missouri River and its southern edge follows the Kansas River, and between them lie rolling fields, timbered draws and a handful of small towns. A lot of land here has never been part of a city, which means county rules, not city rules, govern what you can split, build or permit. If you need a land surveyor in Leavenworth County for acreage, Survey Coordinator can point you to a network surveyor familiar with rural tracts like these.

The county Planning & Zoning department handles only unincorporated land. It reviews preliminary and final plats, tract and lot splits and boundary line adjustments, and it also issues building and septic permits and administers floodplain rules outside city limits. Leavenworth, Lansing, Basehor, Tonganoxie, Easton and Linwood each manage their own planning. Before you list a parcel or start a pole barn, it pays to confirm which side of a city line you are on, because each office expects different survey drawings with an application.

Stranger Creek is the county's main inland stream, flowing south from near Easton past Tonganoxie to the Kansas River close to Linwood. It has a long record of overtopping roads and fields after heavy rain, and its tributaries reach into many rural properties. Fort Leavenworth, a large federal post along the Missouri River, also shapes the map on the county's northeast side. Network surveyors can prepare a property survey, topographic survey or elevation certificate when a creek, river or federal boundary is part of the picture.