THE BACA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Flat to Rolling Plains setting.
Baca County has 2,555 square miles of land in Colorado. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Baca County: Flat to Rolling Plains, Piedmont Plains and Tablelands, Moderate Relief Plains, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Baca County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Flat to Rolling Plains74.1%
- Piedmont Plains and Tablelands10.7%
- Moderate Relief Plains6.6%
- Mesa de Maya/Black Mesa4.3%
- Rolling Sand Plains3%
Southwestern Tablelands in Baca County
Canyons, mesas, badlands and river breaks border the High Plains. This more dissected country includes grassland and shrub-covered slopes, with sharper terrain changes than the neighboring plains.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Baca County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Baca County, including Springfield, Walsh, Two Buttes. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Baca County by land and water
The Census records 2.37 square miles of water within Baca County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Baca County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Baca County has 19,960.9 times the land area of nearby Vilas town (0.13 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bent County, Las Animas County, Prowers County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

