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Kansas County
Greenwood County, Kansas
The Flint Hills' last great tallgrass prairie and Fall River Lake - from Greenwood County's position in the southern Flint Hills (some of the finest remaining tallgrass prairie landscapes in North America stretch across Greenwood County's rocky limestone uplands - annual prescribed burns create the fire-maintained ecosystem that supports the greatest remaining concentration of native grass on the continent) to Fall River Lake and State Park (the 2,500-acre Army Corps reservoir on the Fall River provides boating, fishing, and camping in a scenic Flint Hills setting) and Eureka's small courthouse community.
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Office: Greenwood County Emergency Management – coordinated through the Sheriff’s Department 911 Communications; regularly tests county-wide storm sirens (does not sound an “all clear” tone during severe weather – repeated activations signal new warnings). Annual storm spotter training held at Eureka Jr/Sr High School via the National Weather Service Wichita office.
Sheriff: Greenwood County Sheriff’s Office – 311 N. Main Street, Eureka, KS 67045 | Mailing: PO Box 150 | (620) 583-5568 or (620) 583-8121 | Email: [email protected]; Sheriff Heath Samuels. Sole law enforcement agency for the county. Hours: Mon-Fri 8 AM-5 PM.
Notes: For an active emergency, call 911. EMS: 400 S. Jefferson, Eureka, (620) 583-8114.
Roads & Utilities
ROADS & TRANSPORTATION
Roads: US-54 and US-400 serve Eureka, the county seat, in the Flint Hills of southeastern Kansas.
Notes: Greenwood County was established August 25, 1855, one of the original 36 territorial counties, named for Alfred B. Greenwood, a U.S. congressman and land commissioner who advocated Kansas statehood. It is Kansas’s fifth-largest county by land area.
Business & Permits
BUILDING & PERMITS
Office: Greenwood County Courthouse – Eureka, KS.
Notes: Greenwood County sits in the rolling Flint Hills, renowned for some of the best cattle-grazing grass in the country, and the county’s economy shifted early from crop farming to ranching after repeated droughts and grasshopper plagues in the 1860s. The county also had a genuine early-20th-century oil boom: strikes near Virgil (1916) and the Sallyards field (1917) triggered feverish drilling activity across the county. The 1920s oil camp of Teterville, once a scattered community of family dwellings and company housing tied to the Teter family’s lease, is now a ghost town marked by a striking Stonehenge-like monument visible from an elevated gravel road.
Veterans Services
VETERANS SERVICES
Office: Greenwood County Veterans Affairs – confirm current contact via greenwoodcounty.org.
Libraries
LIBRARIES
Eureka Public Library (Eureka) – bookable for events per county website.
Parks & Recreation
PARKS & RECREATION
Key Assets: The Flint Hills tallgrass prairie landscape, the historic AT&SF Railroad Depot in Eureka (National Register of Historic Places), the Greenwood Hotel, and the Teterville ghost town monument are the county’s premier heritage and scenic attractions.
Notes: The genuine early oil-boom history and the atmospheric Teterville ghost town are distinctive local facts covered in this project.
GIS & Maps
GIS & MAPS
Appraisal/Parcel Search: Greenwood County Appraiser’s Office – confirm current contact via greenwoodcounty.org.
Animal Services
ANIMAL SERVICES
Greenwood County Animal Shelter (City of Eureka) – operated under contract by the Humane Society of Greenwood; confirm current phone/hours via greenwoodcounty.org or the Sheriff’s Office, (620) 583-5568.
Environmental & Waste
ENVIRONMENTAL / WASTE MANAGEMENT
Office: Greenwood County Road & Bridge, Landfill, Recycle – confirm current contact via greenwoodcounty.org.
NOTES: Greenwood County is the third county in the sixth Kansas Round 3 batch, under the A+ sourced standard established for this project. The genuine early oil-boom history and the atmospheric Teterville ghost town are distinctive local facts covered in this project. All contact information above was sourced via web search as of early August 2026 and should be reconfirmed directly with the relevant office before a visit, deadline-sensitive filing, or emergency-adjacent decision.
About Greenwood County
Greenwood County is the southern Flint Hills tallgrass prairie county – some of the finest remaining native grass landscapes in North America extend across Greenwood County’s limestone uplands, where the annual spring burns maintain an ecosystem that once covered 170 million acres of North America.
The Flint Hills tallgrass prairie – now reduced to less than 4% of its original extent – is preserved in Greenwood County’s rocky terrain that resisted the plow. The spring prescribed burns, visible from miles away, are one of the Great Plains’ most dramatic natural events.
Eureka (the county seat, population ~2,300) is a quiet Flint Hills courthouse community serving the surrounding ranching county.
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Greenwood County Appraiser at 311 N. Main Street, Suite 4, Eureka, KS 67045, phone 620-583-8146. KS residential assessed at 11.5% of appraised value.
Courts & Legal
Greenwood County District Court at 311 N. Main Street, Eureka, KS 67045, phone 620-583-8176, handles probate.
Marriage & Vital Records
Marriage licenses, divorce records, and birth & death certificates are handled by the following office(s):
COUNTY CLERK (Records, Elections)
311 N. Main St., Eureka, KS 67045
(620) 583-8121
DISTRICT COURT CLERK (Court Records, Marriage Licenses)
311 N. Main St., Eureka, KS 67045
(620) 583-8151
ELECTIONS (County Clerk)
311 N. Main St., Eureka, KS 67045
(620) 583-8121
Genealogy
County-level record sources
Greenwood County District Court (probate/estate case files – see Probate section above).
Local societies
No dedicated Greenwood County genealogical society was confirmed in available directories.
Probate & Estate
Losing someone and having to deal with courts and paperwork at the same time is hard. This section won’t make that easier, but it should tell you what to expect, what it costs, and where to go – so at least you’re not walking in blind.
Where to go
Greenwood County District Court, 13th Judicial District 311 North Main Street, Eureka, KS 67045 (620) 583-8153 Greenwood County is in the Flint Hills region of east-central Kansas, seated in Eureka.
Step 1: figure out which path applies
Kansas has NOT adopted the Uniform Probate Code, maintaining its own statutory framework under the Kansas Probate Code (K.S.A. Chapter 59). Kansas offers several tracks depending on estate size and complexity:
Small Estate Affidavit – for estates where the total value of probate property, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $75,000 (raised from $40,000 effective July 1, 2023), available under K.S.A. 59-1507b. This transfers personal property only. If the decedent left a will, it must still be filed with the probate court even though it isn’t being formally probated.
Simplified Administration – under the Kansas Simplified Estates Act (K.S.A. 59-3201 et seq.), the most common route for straightforward estates.
Formal Probate – supervised or unsupervised administration through the District Court for larger or more complex estates.
A will must be filed for probate within 6 months of death, or it may not be admitted, forcing the estate into intestate distribution.
Step 2: filing for formal probate
File a Petition for Probate of Will and Appointment of Executor (if there’s a will) or a Petition for Administration (if intestate) with the Greenwood County District Court.
The court admits the will (if any) and appoints the personal representative.
Notice to creditors is published per court order; creditors have a defined window to file claims.
The personal representative inventories assets, pays valid debts and expenses, and – under unsupervised administration – acts with reduced court check-ins.
Without a surviving spouse or children, Kansas intestate succession law (K.S.A. 59-501 et seq.) determines which blood relatives inherit.
After debts are paid, the personal representative distributes assets and files a final accounting; the court closes the estate upon approval.
What it costs
Court costs may be remitted for small estates under recent statutory changes.
Executor/administrator and attorney fees are generally reasonable-fee based rather than a fixed statutory percentage.
Typical timelines: Small Estate Affidavit can proceed relatively quickly; formal probate commonly takes several months to over a year.
Probate filings, estate administration, and guardianship matters are handled by the following office(s):
Public Safety & Arrests
Arrest records, inmate search, and law enforcement services are handled by the following office(s):
SHERIFF
311 N. Main St., Eureka, KS 67045
(620) 583-5511
Elections & Voting
Voter registration, polling locations, and elections information are handled by the following office(s):
COUNTY CLERK (Records, Elections)
311 N. Main St., Eureka, KS 67045
(620) 583-8121
ELECTIONS (County Clerk)
311 N. Main St., Eureka, KS 67045
(620) 583-8121
Health & Human Services
Offices & Contacts
Health services, social services, and assistance programs are handled by the following office(s):
Office: Greenwood County Health Department – confirm current contact via greenwoodcounty.org.
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County Facts
County Seat: Eureka
Population: 6,000
Area: 1,142 sq mi
Established: 1855
Tier: 3
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