THE HINSDALE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Volcanic Subalpine Forests setting.
Hinsdale County has 1,117.2 square miles of land in Colorado. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Hinsdale County: Volcanic Subalpine Forests, Alpine Zone, Volcanic 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
Hinsdale County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Volcanic Subalpine Forests38.4%
- Alpine Zone35.2%
- Volcanic Mid-Elevation Forests8.4%
- Crystalline Subalpine Forests7.1%
- Sedimentary Subalpine Forests6.1%
Finding your parcel within Hinsdale County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hinsdale County, including Cathedral, Piedra, Lake City. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hinsdale County by land and water
The Census records 5.92 square miles of water within Hinsdale County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Hinsdale County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hinsdale County has 1,342.8 times the land area of nearby Lake City town (0.83 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Archuleta County, Gunnison County, La Plata County, Mineral County, Ouray County, Saguache County, San Juan County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.