THE COCONINO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Montane Conifer Forests setting.
Coconino County has 18,616.4 square miles of land in Arizona. 23 mapped landscape regions meet across Coconino County: Montane Conifer Forests, Kaibito/Moenkopi Sandy Plateaus, Conifer Woodlands and Savannas, among others.
These southwestern mountain ranges rise above surrounding deserts and grasslands. Pinyon-juniper and oak woodlands give way to ponderosa pine, with colder forest types limited to the highest areas.
Regional context: Arizona/New Mexico Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Coconino County intersects 23 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Montane Conifer Forests16.5%
- Kaibito/Moenkopi Sandy Plateaus11.6%
- Conifer Woodlands and Savannas9.3%
- Chino/Coconino Grasslands and Shrubsteppe9.3%
- Little Colorado Valley/Painted Desert8.6%
Arizona/New Mexico Plateau in Coconino County
Plains and mesa tops alternate with steep tableland edges in this transition between deserts, grasslands and forested mountains. Local relief changes sharply even within the broader plateau setting.
Read the regional source ↗Colorado Plateaus in Coconino County
Layered sedimentary rock forms mesas, benches, cliffs and deeply cut canyons. Pinyon-juniper woodland, oak and drier basin vegetation vary with elevation and the plateau's strongly contrasting terrain.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Coconino County
The atlas lists 35 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Coconino County, including Valle, Parks, Fort Valley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Coconino County by land and water
The Census records 45 square miles of water within Coconino County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Coconino County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Coconino County has 993.8 times the land area of nearby Cameron CDP (18.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gila County, Mohave County, Navajo County, Yavapai County within Arizona. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

