THE DELTA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins setting.
Delta County has 1,142.1 square miles of land in Colorado. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Delta County: Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins, Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands, Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Delta County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins38.7%
- Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands24.8%
- Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests18.5%
- Sedimentary Subalpine Forests13.1%
- Volcanic Subalpine Forests4.9%
Southern Rockies in Delta County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Delta County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Delta County, including Delta, Orchard City, Cedaredge. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Delta County by land and water
The Census records 6.48 square miles of water within Delta County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Delta County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Delta County has 582.4 times the land area of nearby Cedaredge town (1.96 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gunnison County, Mesa County, Montrose County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

