FAQs • Butler County, KS • CivicEngage

What is the difference between a legal description and a tract description?: Our records include the tract description, which is the legal description rewritten and abbreviated. It is used to help you, and our staff, to be able to visualize the property location and find it easily on a map. Legal descriptions can be rather lengthy and unreadable to someone not familiar with reading legal descriptions.

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Mapping / GIS

1. How do I obtain information about a particular piece of property in Butler County?: You may obtain information about a piece of property by name, address, legal description, or location. This may be accomplished in person, by email, by telephone, or on our website. If you are providing the location, please include information pertaining to adjacent addresses, how far the property is from intersections, and which side of the street the property is located, if possible.

2. What is the difference between a legal description and a tract description?: Our records include the tract description, which is the legal description rewritten and abbreviated. It is used to help you, and our staff, to be able to visualize the property location and find it easily on a map. Legal descriptions can be rather lengthy and unreadable to someone not familiar with reading legal descriptions.

3. May our maps be used for boundary disputes?: No, our maps are not intended for this purpose. They are not survey maps and therefore cannot be used as such. However, they will give you a graphical representation of how your property lies in relation with your neighbors.

4. Where do I find historical aerial photographs?: Currently we have aerial photos available for 1991, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. The photographs from the early 60's were donated to the Kansas Oil Museum in El Dorado, KS.