THE DE BEQUE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins setting.
De Beque town has 2.78 square miles of land in Mesa County. Its Census reference point is in Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins, within Colorado Plateaus.
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.
Regional context: Colorado Plateaus ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
De Beque and Mesa County
De Beque is associated with Mesa 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.
De Beque by land and water
The Census records 0.05 square miles of water within De Beque, or 1.8% of its total area. It is 1.4 percentage points higher than the 0.4% recorded for Mesa County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, De Beque town has 1.1 times the land area of nearby Parachute town (2.57 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

