THE MINERAL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Volcanic Subalpine Forests setting.
Mineral County has 875.8 square miles of land in Colorado. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Mineral County: Volcanic Subalpine Forests, Alpine Zone, Grassland Parks, 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
Mineral County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Volcanic Subalpine Forests62.8%
- Alpine Zone24.6%
- Grassland Parks7.7%
- Sedimentary Mid-Elevation Forests2.6%
- Volcanic Mid-Elevation Forests2.3%
Finding your parcel within Mineral County
The atlas lists 1 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Mineral County, including City of Creede. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Mineral County by land and water
The Census records 2.02 square miles of water within Mineral County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Mineral County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mineral County has 924.8 times the land area of nearby City of Creede town (0.95 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Archuleta County, Hinsdale County, Rio Grande County, Saguache County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

