THE LA PAZ COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Sonoran/Colorado Desert Basins setting.
La Paz County has 4,496.6 square miles of land in Arizona. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across La Paz County: Central Sonoran/Colorado Desert Basins, Arizona Upland/Eastern Sonoran Mountains, Central Sonoran/Colorado Desert Mountains, among others.
Hot desert basins are separated by low mountain ranges. Palo verde, cacti and other drought-adapted plants distinguish the Sonoran setting from the Mojave region farther north.
Regional context: Sonoran Basin and Range ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
La Paz County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Sonoran/Colorado Desert Basins42.6%
- Arizona Upland/Eastern Sonoran Mountains19.2%
- Central Sonoran/Colorado Desert Mountains17.4%
- Arizona Upland/Eastern Sonoran Basins9.2%
- Lower Colorado/Lower Gila River Valleys6.3%
Finding your parcel within La Paz County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with La Paz County, including Vicksburg, Bouse, Alamo Lake. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
La Paz County by land and water
The Census records 14.1 square miles of water within La Paz County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to La Paz County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, La Paz County has 650.7 times the land area of nearby Brenda CDP (6.91 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Maricopa County, Mohave County, Yavapai County, Yuma County within Arizona. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

