THE TELLER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests setting.
Teller County has 557.1 square miles of land in Colorado. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Teller County: Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests, Crystalline Subalpine Forests, Volcanic Subalpine 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
Teller County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests70.8%
- Crystalline Subalpine Forests20.1%
- Volcanic Subalpine Forests4.1%
- Alpine Zone2.5%
- Foothill Shrublands2.4%
Finding your parcel within Teller County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Teller County, including Woodland Park, Midland, Cripple Creek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Teller County by land and water
The Census records 1.92 square miles of water within Teller County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Teller County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Teller County has 323.7 times the land area of nearby Midland CDP (1.72 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Douglas County, El Paso County, Fremont County, Jefferson County, Park County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.