Blog · October 14, 2026 · Kansas
The Montgomery County Plat Book and the online parcel map
For land near Havana, plat books show ownership by township; the parcel viewer shows it today.
Main page: Montgomery County, KS GIS & Parcel Viewer (official map link, county facts and neighboring maps).
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Looking for a Montgomery County plat book? It's a printed atlas of landownership, usually by township, useful for farms near Verdigris River. Covered here for Montgomery County: how the atlas is organized, where to find editions, and the free online map that stays current.
Getting started with the Montgomery County plat book
For a home near Cherryvale, plat books are commercial atlases, showing rural owners and tract lines, usually township by township.
The free map to start with
If you're looking near Wayside, the official parcel map for this area is the ORKA parcel viewer, and it opens in a browser with no account. If you only know roughly where the land is, follow US Route 160 on the aerial until the lines appear, then click inside the one you want, for land near Coffeyville included. For a home near Coffeyville, save the parcel ID from that panel; every office in the county asks for it first.
Neighboring parcel maps
Montgomery County touches Chautauqua County, Elk County, Labette County, Neosho County, and Wilson County; every one of them runs a separate parcel map. Acreage along the edge near Independence may show up across two assessors' files, so open the adjacent map too. For a tract near Sycamore, our state page lists each neighboring county map across Kansas.
Editions and availability
Libraries near Coffeyville sometimes keep past atlases, useful for family or title research.
Making your own township pages
Screenshot each section of the viewer around Wayside to build your own up-to-date atlas.
Who uses plat books
Farmers, hunters and appraisers near Cherryvale use plat books to see ownership across many tracts at once.
Places you'll see on the map
Independence is the county seat, where most land records are kept. You'll also find Caney, Cherryvale, Coffeyville, and Dearing. Roughly 30,568 people live in Montgomery County (Census estimate, 2023) on roughly 644 square miles. Montgomery County dates to 1867, and some chains of title near Dearing are long. Features like Verdigris River help you orient on the aerial.
Using it on a phone
Most viewers work in a phone browser, which helps when you're standing on land near Coffeyville, but coverage can be spotty out of town. A printout of the tract near Cherryvale is a good backup.
The paper trail behind a parcel
For anything that matters, get the recorded deed through the Register of Deeds; the parcel line is a drawing of it, whether the land is near Cherryvale or elsewhere in the county. For a home near Caney, bring the book and page shown in the record panel and the lookup takes minutes.
Who handles what
For assessment questions about property around Verdigris River belong with the County Appraiser, the office behind the parcel record. Questions about what you can build around Independence go to planning, building or health offices, town or county, depending on location.
The free online alternative
For current names, use the ORKA parcel viewer, across the county, for land near Wayside included.
Before you lean on the lines
With a lot near Verdigris River, acreage on the record is a tax-roll number; only a licensed surveyor sets the real corners on the ground. If the land is near Havana, owner names and values update on a schedule, so a deed recorded last month may not show yet.
Reading the legal description
Kansas uses the Public Land Survey System, so rural legal descriptions near Verdigris River cite section, township and range. A standard section is about one square mile, roughly 640 acres, and a township holds 36 of them, though corrections make some sections near Verdigris River odd-sized. Write down the legal description for the tract near Coffeyville before you request a deed or survey.
Not the same thing
For acreage around Caney, a plat book is not a recorded plat: the recorded plat at the Register of Deeds is a legal document, and the atlas is just a guide.
Montgomery County: common questions
Should I use the ORKA parcel viewer instead near Coffeyville?
For a parcel near Cherryvale, the ORKA parcel viewer is free and updated more often.
How do I research old landowners near Wayside?
If the land is near Coffeyville, some older atlases have been digitized.
Where can I buy a plat book for land near Dearing?
Around Sycamore, it depends on whether a publisher has a current edition.
Is a plat book legal proof for land near Caney?
For acreage around Jefferson, recorded plats are legal documents at the Register of Deeds, and plat books are references; check the deed.
How is land described in Kansas deeds near Wayside?
Out toward Caney, Deeds use lot and block, metes and bounds or survey descriptions; copy it for any survey or title request.
Open the official Montgomery County, KS parcel map See it in the Platbookmapper directory
Not a survey. County GIS and tax parcel maps are assessment and planning layers. They are not a substitute for a recorded plat, deed, or licensed survey, especially for fences, setbacks, or boundary disputes.