THE EAGLE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sedimentary Subalpine Forests setting.
Eagle County has 1,684.5 square miles of land in Colorado. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Eagle County: Sedimentary Subalpine Forests, Foothill Shrublands, Sedimentary Mid-Elevation 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
Eagle County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sedimentary Subalpine Forests37.4%
- Foothill Shrublands31.6%
- Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests14.9%
- Crystalline Subalpine Forests9.5%
- Alpine Zone5.8%
Finding your parcel within Eagle County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Eagle County, including Edwards, Gypsum, Avon. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Eagle County by land and water
The Census records 7.32 square miles of water within Eagle County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Eagle County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Eagle County has 63.2 times the land area of nearby Edwards CDP (26.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Garfield County, Grand County, Lake County, Pitkin County, Routt County, Summit County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

