Bank of the Plains

Bank of the Plains is a mortgage lender in Great Bend, Kansas, located at 1000 Adams St. The bank offers personal banking, business banking, and agricultural banking, with checking and savings accounts, personal loans, mortgages, and commercial lending. It serves individuals, families, and businesses across Kansas, with branch locations in Anthony, Great Bend, Harper, Hutchinson, Liberal, Plains, Salina, and Sterling.

The bank traces its history to 1906, when Plains State Bank was founded after John and Frank Collingwood, who had come to western Kansas to build a farming operation, recognized the need for a bank in Plains. The bank describes its approach as relationship banking, built on partnering with the communities it serves. Its stated values are partnership, respect, faith, and empowerment. It reports supporting more than 115 local organizations through donations, employing over 70 local workers, and contributing more than 3,500 community service hours. Its team includes Randy Marshall, who joined the bank, and executive Pat Fallon, who received the 2026 Kansas Ag Bankers Pioneer Award. The bank hires for roles including commercial lender, mortgage division and credit administration manager, retail manager and personal banker, and compliance and CRA officer.

The Great Bend branch sits on Adams Street, about 0.2 miles from Washington Early Childhood Center and 10th Street, and roughly 0.3 miles from the Kansas Bureau of Investigations and the Kansas Highway Patrol Troop F - Barton station. Nelson Stone Memorial Park and the Great Bend Police Department are each about 0.6 miles away.

The bank holds a rating of 4.80 from the customers who have reviewed it, reflecting a positive reception among its clientele.

With more than a century of banking behind it and a stated focus on partnership with the communities it serves, Bank of the Plains brings long-established agricultural, personal, and business lending to Great Bend and the surrounding Kansas plains.