THE EL PASO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Foothill Grasslands setting.
El Paso County has 2,126.4 square miles of land in Colorado. 9 mapped landscape regions meet across El Paso County: Foothill Grasslands, Piedmont Plains and Tablelands, Sandsheets, among others.
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.
Regional context: Southwestern Tablelands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
El Paso County intersects 9 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Foothill Grasslands35.5%
- Piedmont Plains and Tablelands29.4%
- Sandsheets11.4%
- Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests9.2%
- Pine-Oak Woodlands7.1%
Southern Rockies in El Paso 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 El Paso County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with El Paso County, including Colorado Springs, Black Forest, Fort Carson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
El Paso County by land and water
The Census records 2.72 square miles of water within El Paso County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to El Paso County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, El Paso County has 194.7 times the land area of nearby Ellicott CDP (10.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Douglas County, Elbert County, Fremont County, Lincoln County, Pueblo County, Teller County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.