Kansas county routes

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This is a page to describe the state of the Kansas county rural system and roads in OSM.

Currently most county routes are untouched TIGER data. They are typically tagged as highway=residential and have tiger:name_base tags.

Problems with the existing TIGER data

  • No surface attributes. The paved county roads are not identified.

How to map

The Kansas Department of Transportation has FC maps available online (they are public domain) which can be used as a reference. They can be found at http://ksdot.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b90fa96277e148f9800fb1b6a2d584f1 The Quarter inch map PDFs seem to be more up-to-date than the FC maps (2018 vs 2013). The Half inch map PDFs are good for finding dirt roads, bridges, low_water_crossings and such. Urban FC maps link at https://www.ksdot.org/bureaus/burtransplan/maps/MapCountCities.asp

  • Most county collectors will be tagged as highway=residential. In general this is should be changed to highway=tertiary.
  • County border roads likely have different names in each county. Best practice?
  • County borders can be tricky. If it is a simple case of abutting ways, just merge the nodes to form a routable junction. Things are often complicated by duplicate ways running along county borders. When just working on highway relations it is acceptable to tag the duplicate ways with FIXME tags, merge the nodes affecting the highway and move on. If you are feeling ambitious you can delete one of the duplicate ways and then make sure all the intersecting ways are joined to the remaining one.

The goal is to have routable ways.

List of counties and their status

County Status Source Date Contributors Urban areas Source Date
ALLEN Iola
ANDERSON
ATCHISON Achison
BARBER
BARTON Great Bent
BOURBON Fort Scott
BROWN
BUTLER Augusta, Eldorado
CHASE
CHAUTAUQUA
CHEROKEE Baxter Springs
CHEYENNE
CLARK
CLAY FC Nov 2018 Starkreiten
CLOUD Concordia
COFFEY
COMANCHE
COWLEY Arkansas City, Winfield
CRAWFORD Pittsburg
DECATUR
DICKINSON FC Nov 2018 Starkreiten Abilene
DONIPHAN Elwood
DOUGLAS Eudora, Lawrence
EDWARDS
ELK
ELLIS Hays


ELLSWORTH
FINNEY Garden City
FORD Dodge City
FRANKLIN Ottawa
GEARY FC Nov 2018 Starkreiten Junction City
GOVE
GRAHAM
GRANT Ulysses
GRAY
GREELEY
GREENWOOD
HAMILTON
HARPER
HARVEY Newton
HASKELL
HODGEMAN
JACKSON
JEFFERSON
JEWELL
JOHNSON Kansas City(partial), Spring Hill(partial)
KEARNY
KINGMAN
KIOWA
LABETTE Parsons
LANE
LEAVENWORTH Leavenworth
LINCOLN
LINN
LOGAN
LYON Emporia
MARION
MARSHALL
MCPHERSON McPherson
MEADE
MIAMI Paola, Spring Hill(partial)
MITCHELL
MONTGOMERY Coffeyville, Independence
MORRIS
MORTON
NEMAHA
NEOSHO Chanute
NESS
NORTON
OSAGE
OSBORNE
OTTAWA
PAWNEE
PHILLIPS
POTTAWATOMIE
PRATT Pratt
RAWLINS
RENO Hutchinson
REPUBLIC
RICE
RILEY Manhattan
ROOKS
RUSH
RUSSELL
SALINE Salina
SCOTT
SEDGWICK Wichita
SEWARD Liberal
SHAWNEE Topeka
SHERIDAN
SHERMAN
SMITH
STAFFORD
STANTON
STEVENS
SUMNER Wellington
THOMAS Colby
TREGO
WABAUNSEE
WALLACE
WASHINGTON
WICHITA
WILSON
WOODSON
WYANDOTTE Kansas City(partial)

Status legend

  • FC = Functional Classification completed (all paved roads should be surfaced and navigable)

The template for this page was blatantly stolen from the Kansas US highway page -- thanks Toebee.