Editing Montgomery County, Kansas (section)

==Geography==
According to the [[U.S. Census Bureau]], the county has a total area of {{convert|651|sqmi}}, of which {{convert|644|sqmi}} is land and {{convert|8.0|sqmi}} (1.2%) is water.<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> The [[List of U.S. states by elevation|lowest point]] in the state of Kansas is located on the [[Verdigris River]] in Cherokee Township in Montgomery County (just southeast of Coffeyville), where it flows out of Kansas and into [[Oklahoma]].   Western portions of the county contain parts of the northern Cross Timbers eco-region, which separates the forested eastern portion of the United States with the Plains.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/student/holoubek1/report.html|title=Landscape Classification of Kansas Cross Timbers - ES 771 Remote Sensing|access-date=May 15, 2017|archive-date=September 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906015635/http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/student/holoubek1/report.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Google Maps uses Fawn Creek Township within Montgomery County as the [[kilometre zero|zero-mile point]] of the United States. In other words, all directions to the "United States" will lead to a point in Fawn Creek.<ref>[https://www.google.com/maps/dir//United+States/@37.095304,-95.7095004,14.46z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x54eab584e432360b:0x1c3bb99243deb742!2m2!1d-95.712891!2d37.09024!3e0 Google Maps]</ref>

===Adjacent counties===
* [[Wilson County, Kansas|Wilson County]] (north)
* [[Neosho County, Kansas|Neosho County]] (northeast)
* [[Labette County, Kansas|Labette County]] (east)
* [[Nowata County, Oklahoma|Nowata County]], [[Oklahoma]] (southeast)
* [[Washington County, Oklahoma|Washington County]], [[Oklahoma]] (south)
* [[Chautauqua County, Kansas|Chautauqua County]] (west)
* [[Elk County, Kansas|Elk County]] (northwest)

===Bodies of water===
*[[Elk City Lake]]
*[[Elk River (Kansas)|Elk River]]
*[[Havana Lake]]
*[[Liberty Lakes]]
*[[State Lake]]
*[[Verdigris River]]

===State parks===
*[[Elk City State Park]]
*[[Montgomery County State Park]]