THE MOFFAT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Sagebrush Steppe setting.
Moffat County has 4,743.2 square miles of land in Colorado. 9 mapped landscape regions meet across Moffat County: Rolling Sagebrush Steppe, Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands, Salt Desert Shrub Basins, among others.
A broad dry basin is interrupted by hills and low mountains. Grassland and shrubland dominate the regional setting between the more heavily forested surrounding ranges.
Regional context: Wyoming Basin ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Moffat County intersects 9 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Sagebrush Steppe42.4%
- Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands22.9%
- Salt Desert Shrub Basins15.1%
- Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins6.2%
- Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains5.2%
Colorado Plateaus in Moffat County
Layered sedimentary rock forms mesas, benches, cliffs and deeply cut canyons. Pinyon-juniper woodland, oak and drier basin vegetation vary with elevation and the plateau's strongly contrasting terrain.
Read the regional source ↗Southern Rockies in Moffat 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 Moffat County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Moffat County, including Craig, Dinosaur, Maybell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Moffat County by land and water
The Census records 7.65 square miles of water within Moffat County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Moffat County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Moffat County has 9,034.8 times the land area of nearby Maybell CDP (0.53 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Rio Blanco County, Routt County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

