Rooks County, Kansas
"Pioneering Spirit, Progressive Attitude"

Rooks County is located in Northwest Kansas halfway between Denver and Kansas City at the eastern edge of the Great Plains.  The county's approximate 5,600 people enjoy a quality of life that is attractive to people seeking a simpler way of life.

The citizens of Rooks County retain the hard-working, pioneering spirit that characterized their ancestors, and at the same time, look to the future with a progressive attitude and a vision for the future.

Explore our website and discover what Rooks County has to offer.  Click here to view the landscape around Rooks County.

"If you haven't seen Kansas, you haven't seen America"  -- Garrison Keillor

Visit the Rural Kansas websites for Palco, Plainville, and Stockton

Rooks County Emergency Management is interested in your feedback on the draft Hazard Mitigation plan. This plan makes participating jurisdictions eligible for pre-disaster funds from FEMA. The draft will be posted online for 30 days, beginning August 6, 2010. Please send your comments to Butch Post, Rooks County Emergency Manager via email at rcem@ruraltel.net.  The final plan will be posted on this same site, after public input is incorporated into it, and it is approved by FEMA.  Click here to view the draft plan.

• Kansas Business Center: Simple Steps for Success
  (This website will lead you through the planning, starting, maintainence of your business)

• Incentives available to new businesses

Articles

• Rural Kansas is good for business

• How to Make a Killing in Small Town America: Tips to get started by David LaGesse, US News & World Report

• New businesses continue to open in Rooks County 

 

FREE LAND for Residential & Industrial Building (Click below to read more)

• Plainville offering free land for residential homes

• Free Industrial Park land in Stockton

 

Special Events

View the "Get Rooks County" Blog