THE FREMONT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Foothill Shrublands setting.
Fremont County has 1,533.8 square miles of land in Colorado. 10 mapped landscape regions meet across Fremont County: Foothill Shrublands, Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests, Piedmont Plains and Tablelands, 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
Fremont County intersects 10 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Foothill Shrublands45.5%
- Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests18.9%
- Piedmont Plains and Tablelands11.3%
- Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests7.5%
- Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands and Savannas5.4%
Southwestern Tablelands in Fremont 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 Fremont County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fremont County, including Coaldale, Penrose, Howard. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fremont County by land and water
The Census records 0.86 square miles of water within Fremont County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Fremont County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fremont County has 234.2 times the land area of nearby Park Center CDP (6.55 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chaffee County, Custer County, El Paso County, Park County, Pueblo County, Saguache County, Teller County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

