THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Piedmont Plains and Tablelands setting.
Lincoln County has 2,577.7 square miles of land in Colorado. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Piedmont Plains and Tablelands, Moderate Relief Plains, Flat to Rolling Plains, 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
Lincoln County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Piedmont Plains and Tablelands53.5%
- Moderate Relief Plains21.8%
- Flat to Rolling Plains16.4%
- Rolling Sand Plains8.2%
High Plains in Lincoln County
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Limon, Hugo, Arriba. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 8.8 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 2,826.5 times the land area of nearby Hugo town (0.91 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Arapahoe County, Cheyenne County, Crowley County, El Paso County, Elbert County, Kiowa County, Kit Carson County, Pueblo County and other counties within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

