THE BOULDER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Front Range Fans setting.
Boulder city has 26.9 square miles of land in Boulder County. Its Census reference point is in Front Range Fans, within High Plains.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Boulder and Boulder County
Boulder is associated with Boulder County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Boulder by land and water
The Census records 1.05 square miles of water within Boulder, or 3.8% of its total area. It is 1.9 percentage points higher than the 1.9% recorded for Boulder County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Boulder city has 104.4 times the land area of nearby Valmont CDP (0.26 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

