THE DEL NORTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Serpentine Siskiyous setting.
Del Norte County has 1,006.2 square miles of land in California. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Del Norte County: Serpentine Siskiyous, Western Klamath Low Elevation Forests, Northern Franciscan Redwood Forest, among others.
Dissected ridges, valleys and foothills combine varied rock types with diverse conifer and hardwood forests. The Klamath and Siskiyou ranges differ geologically from the volcanic Cascades to the east.
Regional context: Klamath Mountains/California High North Coast Range ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Del Norte County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Serpentine Siskiyous29.4%
- Western Klamath Low Elevation Forests28.4%
- Northern Franciscan Redwood Forest23.5%
- Western Klamath Montane Forests10.5%
- Coastal Lowlands6.2%
Coast Range in Del Norte County
Pacific-facing coastal mountains support moisture-loving conifers, with marine terraces, dunes and beaches along the ocean edge. Inland slopes and the immediate coast have different vegetation patterns.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Del Norte County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Del Norte County, including Klamath, Bertsch-Oceanview, Gasquet. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Del Norte County by land and water
The Census records 223.5 square miles of water within Del Norte County, or 18.2% of its total area. That share is close to Del Norte County’s 18.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Del Norte County has 1,734.8 times the land area of nearby Hiouchi CDP (0.58 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Humboldt County, Siskiyou County within California. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

