THE SILT LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins setting.
Silt town has 1.68 square miles of land in Garfield 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
Silt and Garfield County
Silt is associated with Garfield 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.
Silt by land and water
The Census records 0.07 square miles of water within Silt, or 4.2% of its total area. It is 3.9 percentage points higher than the 0.3% recorded for Garfield County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Silt town has 23.7% of the land area of nearby Rifle city (7.08 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

