Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service. To get aerial photos of a Kansas parcel, enter the county and the APN. The boundary is drawn from county assessor parcel data and the pack renders in about ten minutes: an outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video and a contour map. Nobody flies out, so there is no travel charge, and all 105 counties render.
- Coverage
- Statewide, from county records
- Turnaround
- About 10 minutes
- Travel charge
- None, ever
- Imagery age
- One to three years
On flat ground, the water and the fence tell the story.
Kansas tracts are big and the relief is subtle, which makes a road photo close to useless. What a buyer wants is the shape of the whole thing at once: where the pivot reaches and where it does not, where the draw runs, how the pasture is cross fenced, whether the pond holds.
County assessor parcel data is what the boundary is drawn from, so coverage here is complete rather than partial. A section in Barber County renders in the same ten minutes as a quarter in Johnson County, and pivot circles, ponds and cross fences read plainly from above.
Boundaries are approximate, from public parcel data, and are not a survey.
One APN. Everything below.
One parcel, one APN. Native grass with two ponds, a draw across the northwest corner, and a section road on the east line.
Everything in the pack
This is the whole Kansas delivery.
Every view below came back from one parcel number, in about ten minutes, with no pilot and no site visit.
Where Kansas land actually trades.
These are the ones land buyers ask for most, each with its own page.
Do not see your county? Every one of the 105 renders. Send the APN and it comes back the same ten minutes.
Asked by people selling Kansas ground.
Which Kansas counties can you do?
Send the county and the APN and we go straight to that county's own parcel records. Coverage varies: some states publish one statewide layer, others leave it county by county. If yours is one where the records are not public, you hear it from us before anything is charged.
How much does a drone photographer cost for a rural Kansas listing?
Dirt Flight is not a drone photography service, so this is not our fee. A Kansas pilot quotes the shoot plus the drive, and out west that drive can be most of the invoice. Dirt Flight renders the parcel from licensed aerial imagery and public elevation data instead of sending anyone up in the air, so there is no travel charge, no scheduling and no weather day.
Will a pivot and its corners show on the imagery?
Clearly. The circle, the dry corners and the tower track all read from above, and the outlined boundary shows how much of the pivot is actually on the tract you are selling. That is a common surprise on split quarters.
Can you show grass, water and cross fencing on pasture?
Yes. Ponds, springs, cross fences, working pens and the trailed-in paths cattle make are all visible, and the contour map shows the draws. On Kansas grass that is the whole conversation.
How recent is the imagery on a Kansas parcel?
The licensed coverage for Kansas is usually one to three years old, and every pack carries its render date. A new pivot, a cleaned-out pond or fresh cross fence will not appear until the next flight. Anything that changed since the flight will not be in it.
What exactly comes back for a Kansas APN?
The outlined top down, four cardinal 3D views, an 18 second orbit video, a contour map, a context map and a parcel info sheet, sized for listing sites and for print. Paydirt adds road frontage views, infrared, a social kit and the full resolution files. Kansas sellers use the top down for the pivot and the contour map for the draws.
Got a Kansas parcel under contract?
Send the county and the APN. If your invite is not open yet we will still look at the first one by hand.