Cottonwood Falls vs Chase County: City Desk or County Clerk
Updated: Aug 29
Cottonwood Falls is the Chase County seat, about an hour north of Wichita on K-177 — census around 851, with Broadway, the 1873 Chase County Courthouse, and Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve nearby. City Hall is at 220 Broadway. City Clerk Tina Andrews is the person to call at 620-273-6666, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Chase County Clerk sits at 300 Pearl. The preserve (620-273-8494, ext. 270) does not issue short-term rental licenses, and Kansas lodging tax remittance is not land-use permission.
Typical Cottonwood Falls listings earned about $22,862 last year from 18 active rentals, per AirROI's trailing twelve months from May 2025 through April 2026. The average night was $247, occupancy 27.7 percent, revenue per available night $70 — up 11.2 percent year over year. Emporia's $13,350 sits in Lyon County. Do not file that year as Cottonwood Falls.
This page is the call sheet. Pick the clerk the driveway actually has, bring the parcel, and confirm 2026 before you advertise a stay. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve at, extension 270, does not issue short-term rental licenses. Kansas lodging tax remittance is not land-use permission. Preserve-adjacent land can sit outside city limits. Read the tax map, then dial the phone that matches it.
City Hall Sits at 220 Broadway
The first question is not which prairie the guest will book. The first question is which city hall covers the parcel. City of Cottonwood Falls and Chase County are two separate offices. Wichita is a third city about one hour down K-177. A listing that says cabin near Wichita has not named a clerk. A listing that says Wichita when the tax map says Cottonwood Falls has named the wrong one. Pull the parcel before you pull the photography. Preserve-adjacent land can sit outside the city. The prairie is not the city. Identification is first: city limits, unincorporated Chase County, or preserve-adjacent land.
K-177 runs the hour. It does not assign the hall. Broadway sits in the city. The county clerk sits at 300 Pearl. Guests can drive Wichita and this cell in a day. The clerk cannot. The identity file keeps the towns apart on the tile. The call sheet keeps them apart on the phone. Emporia is a Lyon County market. It does not inherit this clerk. Strong City is 404. It does not inherit this clerk either.
If the address is ambiguous, stop advertising. Call the city or the county that matches the tax map and ask which desk owns the parcel in 2026. Do not ask Cottonwood Falls hall to speak for Wichita. Do not ask Chase County to bless an Emporia driveway. Do not ask a metro desk to bless a prairie-seat use. The town is modest. The hall is specific. Census about 851 does not make the map optional. Read the map, then dial the phone that matches it.
Tina Andrews Answers
City of Cottonwood Falls hall is at 220 Broadway, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845. That is the city desk, not NPS at the preserve and not the county clerk at 300 Pearl. Bring the parcel to this address when the tax map says the driveway is inside the city. Do not bring it to the ranger station and hope a brochure covers the use. Do not bring it to Wichita because the guest started there. Tina Andrews is the clerk on this door. Write the address into the packet.
There is a published Cottonwood Falls year. It is $22,862 on 18 listings. Do not quote Emporia $13,350 as this hall's year. Do not quote a Strong City year. The courthouse is a visitor hook. It is not a license. The market extract already records the cell. The clerk file records the address. Prairie parcels may sit outside this hall. Confirm city limits before you treat 220 Broadway as the only counter that can answer.
Ask the hall whether the parcel sits inside the city, what remittance path 2026 still requires, and whether any non-STR building or occupancy paper still applies. Bring the parcel, the site plan if you have it, and the platform URL you intend to run. Leave Wichita out of the zoning question. This hall answers for Cottonwood Falls. Confirm remittance separately. Tax is not a permit. A prairie Saturday does not rewrite the city line. Half the cards on this extract set an one-night minimum and half set two. That filter is not a city license, and the hall will not mint one because a guest wants a Friday key.
County Clerk Sits at 300 Pearl
The clerk line is (620) 273-6666. It sits on 220 Broadway. Use the clerk line for clerk questions. Write the number into the packet the same day you confirm the parcel. A remembered phone is not a 2026 confirmation. Do not substitute an NPS number. Do not substitute a Wichita number. Do not substitute the Pearl Street county clerk when the tax map says the city. Tina Andrews is the name on that line.
A dedicated STR permit is not confirmed on a primary page this pass. Flag it unknown. Call (620) 273-6666 and ask what 2026 actually requires. Do not ask the phone to invent a form. Kansas lodging tax remittance is a real desk. It is not land-use permission. Startup costs keep the tax path in view. This section keeps the clerk phone in view. Typical year is still $22,862. A phone call does not raise that figure.
Ask whether the parcel is inside the city, what remittance looks like, and which other city desk, if any, still touches a lodging stay. Bring a Cottonwood Falls parcel, not a Wichita card you hope Broadway will cover. If the driveway is unincorporated county land, hang up and call 300 Pearl. If the driveway is an Emporia card, that is a Lyon County market. The two towns do not share this clerk. Remittance is still not occupancy, and occupancy is still not the clerk. 18 listings do not mint a permit this phone has not published. Peak-3 is still November, May, and July.
Connie Pretzer Answers
Tina Andrews is the City of Cottonwood Falls Clerk. She sits at 220 Broadway, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845. The clerk phone is (620) 273-6666. Name the clerk in the packet. A packet that says city hall without a name is easier to lose. A packet that says NPS has named the wrong window. Ask Tina Andrews's desk whether the parcel is inside the city and what 2026 remittance still requires. Do not ask her to issue a dedicated STR permit the city has not confirmed on a primary page. Flag unknown.
Do not treat the clerk as a tourism desk. The courthouse, the preserve, and K-177 are visitor landscape. They are not her license window. The buyer packet already warns that two separate offices travel with the deed. This section names the city side so the loan file and the listing file stop saying Wichita. Origin city on the extract is Wichita. Origin is not Tina Andrews. Census about 851 travels with this hall, not with a metro clerk.
If a broker packet cites a Wichita clerk because the listing still says stay near Wichita, send it back. Tina Andrews is still the city clerk. Keep metro paper on the metro side of K-177. A guest guide can say the drive starts in Wichita. A permit file that files the wrong city is not a guest guide. Confirm the city on the tax bill before you confirm the name. Confirm 2026 in writing if the hall will write it. 18 listings do not change who sits at 220 Broadway.
NPS at does not issue short-term rental licenses
Chase County Clerk Connie Pretzer sits at 300 Pearl St., PO Box 529, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845. The phone is (620) 273-6423. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. This is the County market, not the city desk and not Wichita. Strong City is 404 as a year. The clerk sitting at Pearl does not mint a Strong City extract you can underwrite. County records, elections, and parcel identity still live at this counter. It is not a confirmed STR permit window.
The county seat for this clerk is Cottonwood Falls. The town is Cottonwood Falls. Do not carry Wichita short-term paper into 300 Pearl. Do not carry an Emporia packet and hope Lyon County will cover you. The rules file already splits city and county. This section keeps the Pearl phone in view. Ask whether the parcel is city or unincorporated county land, what 2026 remittance looks like, and which other County market, if any, still touches a lodging stay.
Bring a Chase County parcel, not a Wichita card and not a Strong City card. If the driveway is inside Cottonwood Falls city limits, the city clerk still comes first. If the driveway is preserve-adjacent, ask whether NPS land changes the map. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is NPS landscape. The prairie is not the city. AirROI neighbor scrapes that name Winfield mean a Cowley County market. Label that mash. It is not this clerk. Remittance is still not occupancy, and occupancy is still not Connie Pretzer.
Dedicated STR Permit Is Not Confirmed
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve answers at (620) 273-8494 x270. That is the visitor line, not the clerk. It can name the grass, the trails, and the hours. It cannot name a land-use permit. It cannot stand in for Tina Andrews at 220 Broadway. It cannot stand in for Connie Pretzer at 300 Pearl. A host who calls the ranger line for a license is calling the wrong door. Tourism copy is demand landscape. It is not T12, and it is not a hall. Dedicated STR permit is still unknown.
Do not file a preserve brochure as zoning evidence. Do not treat a trail calendar as occupancy. Peak-3 is November, May, and July. Peak month is November. The preserve is not the peak month. Occupancy is still 27.7 percent. Typical year is still $22,862. The tourism file keeps visitor dollars off the host extract. The clerk file keeps (620) 273-8494 x270 off the license sentence.
If a listing packet cites NPS as the window that blessed the stay, send it back. The live city desk is 220 Broadway. The live County market is 300 Pearl. The visitor desk is landscape. The visitor guide can use the preserve after the hall has spoken. A tile that names the ranger and skips the clerk is already a costume. Confirm the parcel, then confirm the clerk, then let the preserve talk about grass. Hours confirmation is a guest job. Permit confirmation is a hall job.
Kansas Lodging Tax Is Not Land-Use Permission
Parcel is the first line. Confirm whether the driveway sits inside Cottonwood Falls or on county land around it. Confirm that it is not a Wichita card, not an Emporia card, and not a Strong City card. Confirm whether a preserve-adjacent parcel sits outside city limits. A tile that names the wrong town teaches the guest the wrong overnight. A tile that names Wichita as the pin teaches the guest the wrong region. Wichita is the hour drive, not this driveway. Census about 851 does not make the map optional.
AirROI neighborhoods can mash a metro origin onto this cell. Origin city is Wichita. That is the drive market, not jurisdiction. The marketing file is where prairie language belongs after the parcel is right. Who books this town is where preserve guests and byway guests split. Neither file replaces the tax map. 18 listings already make the line visible. One new listing still moves every percentage.
Confirm parcel, then confirm the hall, then write the stay. Do not advertise a Wichita path on a Cottonwood Falls driveway. Do not advertise an Emporia later desk as this clerk. Do not advertise a Strong City identity on a Chase County seat. The two phones exist because the two separate offices do not cover for a metro. A live tile that already named the wrong city should come down until the hall and the remittance path match the driveway. Copy is cheaper to fix than a tax desk you advertised in public.
Preserve-Adjacent Land Needs the Tax Map
Bring the parcel number, the street address, and a simple statement of use: entire home or not, nights you intend to advertise, and whether you already have a live tile. Bring the platform URL if it exists. Bring proof of ownership or authorization. Bring a floor plan only if the hall asks. Do not bring a blended Emporia T12. Do not bring prairie acres or concert leftovers as zoning evidence. Do not bring an NPS brochure as a permit.
For city hall at (620) 273-6666, ask whether the parcel is inside the city and what remittance 2026 still requires. For the county clerk at (620) 273-6423, ask the same questions on county land and on recording. Ask structure and use, not for a dedicated STR permit the city has not confirmed. Confirm every answer as 2026. The DIY file can wait until the hall has spoken. Copy is cheaper to rewrite than a listing that never had a clerk.
Leave with a name, a date, and the next form. If the hall says no dedicated STR permit is on the books, write that down and still confirm remittance. If the hall says confirm in writing, wait for the writing. The modest prairie-seat overnight starts at the counter, not at the ranger gate. Write the answer into the listing packet the same day. A remembered phone call is not a 2026 confirmation. If city and county both claim the parcel, stop and get the tax map in writing before either tile or note moves.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is the city clerk?
If the driveway is inside Cottonwood Falls city limits, the city clerk still comes first. Confirm whether the driveway sits inside Cottonwood Falls or on county land around it. Confirm whether a preserve-adjacent parcel sits outside city limits. Identification is first: city limits, unincorporated Chase County, or preserve-adjacent land. Ask whether the parcel is city or unincorporated county land, what 2026 remittance looks like, and which other County market, if any, still touches a lodging stay.
Who is the county clerk?
Monday through Friday 8 to 5. City Clerk Tina Andrews is the person to call at, Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. Tina Andrews is still the city clerk. Tina Andrews is the City of Cottonwood Falls Clerk. The county seat for this clerk is Cottonwood Falls. Chase County Clerk Connie Pretzer sits at 300 Pearl St., PO Box 529, Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Is NPS a clerk's office?
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve at, extension 270, does not issue short-term rental licenses. 270) does not issue short-term rental licenses, and Kansas lodging tax remittance is not land-use permission. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve answers at (620) 273-8494 x270. Kansas lodging tax remittance is not land-use permission. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve is NPS landscape. Cottonwood Falls is the Chase County seat, about an hour north of Wichita on K-177 — census around 851, with Broadway, the 1873 Chase County Courthouse, and Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve nearby.
Is there a confirmed STR permit?
Dedicated city or county STR permit is not confirmed. Ask structure and use, not for a dedicated STR permit the city has not confirmed. Do not ask her to issue a dedicated STR permit the city has not confirmed on a primary page. A dedicated STR permit is not confirmed on a primary page this pass.
Is lodging tax permission?
Kansas lodging tax remittance is not land-use permission. Kansas lodging tax remittance is a real desk. Ask whether the parcel is inside the city, what remittance looks like, and which other city desk, if any, still touches a lodging stay. Ask Tina Andrews's desk whether the parcel is inside the city and what 2026 remittance still requires.
Does Wichita paper apply?
Wichita is about an hour down K-177. It does not assign this hall. Wichita is a third city about one hour down K-177. A live tile that already named the wrong city should come down until the hall and the remittance path match the driveway. Ask the hall whether the parcel sits inside the city, what remittance path 2026 still requires, and whether any non-STR building or occupancy paper still applies.
Does Emporia inherit this clerk?
Emporia is a Lyon County market. If the driveway is an Emporia card, that is a Lyon County market. It does not inherit this clerk either. It does not inherit this clerk. Do not advertise an Emporia later desk as this clerk. This is the County market, not the city desk and not Wichita. Confirm that it is not a Wichita card, not an Emporia card, and not a Strong City card.
What is the extract?
For city hall at (620) 273-6666, ask whether the parcel is inside the city and what remittance 2026 still requires. Call (620) 273-6666 and ask what 2026 actually requires. Call the city or the county that matches the tax map and ask which desk owns the parcel in 2026. If the hall says no dedicated STR permit is on the books, write that down and still confirm remittance.
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