THE ARCHULETA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests setting.
Archuleta County has 1,350.1 square miles of land in Colorado. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Archuleta County: Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests, Volcanic Subalpine Forests, Sedimentary Subalpine Forests, among others.
Steep mountains rise through distinct vegetation bands, from lower grass and shrub country to conifers and alpine terrain. Elevation is a defining difference across Southern Rocky Mountain landscapes.
Regional context: Southern Rockies ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Archuleta County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests66.1%
- Volcanic Subalpine Forests14.8%
- Sedimentary Subalpine Forests14.4%
- Alpine Zone2.3%
- Foothill Shrublands1.7%
Colorado Plateaus in Archuleta County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Archuleta County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Archuleta County, including Arboles, Pagosa Springs. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Archuleta County by land and water
The Census records 5.31 square miles of water within Archuleta County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Archuleta County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Archuleta County has 266.7 times the land area of nearby Pagosa Springs town (5.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Conejos County, Hinsdale County, La Plata County, Mineral County, Rio Grande County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

