THE PROWERS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Piedmont Plains and Tablelands setting.
Prowers County has 1,638.4 square miles of land in Colorado. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Prowers County: Piedmont Plains and Tablelands, Flat to Rolling Plains, Sandsheets, 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
Prowers County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Piedmont Plains and Tablelands62.9%
- Flat to Rolling Plains28.7%
- Sandsheets7.1%
- Rolling Sand Plains1.3%
High Plains in Prowers 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 Prowers County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Prowers County, including Lamar, Holly, Granada. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Prowers County by land and water
The Census records 5.92 square miles of water within Prowers County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Prowers County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Prowers County has 2,391.8 times the land area of nearby Granada town (0.69 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Baca County, Bent County, Kiowa County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

