THE YUMA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Sand Plains setting.
Yuma County has 2,364.4 square miles of land in Colorado. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Yuma County: Rolling Sand Plains, Flat to Rolling Plains, Moderate Relief Plains.
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.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Yuma County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Sand Plains50%
- Flat to Rolling Plains30.1%
- Moderate Relief Plains19.9%
Finding your parcel within Yuma County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Yuma County, including Wray, Yuma, Vernon. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Yuma County by land and water
The Census records 4.3 square miles of water within Yuma County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Yuma County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Yuma County has 2,088.7 times the land area of nearby Vernon CDP (1.13 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Kit Carson County, Logan County, Phillips County, Washington County within Colorado. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

