THE DE BACA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central New Mexico Plains setting.
De Baca County has 2,323.1 square miles of land in New Mexico. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across De Baca County: Central New Mexico Plains, Conchas/Pecos Plains, Llano Estacado.
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
De Baca County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central New Mexico Plains49%
- Conchas/Pecos Plains46.2%
- Llano Estacado4.8%
High Plains in De Baca 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 De Baca County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with De Baca County, including Lake Sumner, Fort Sumner. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
De Baca County by land and water
The Census records 11.2 square miles of water within De Baca County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to De Baca County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, De Baca County has 701.8 times the land area of nearby Fort Sumner village (3.31 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chaves County, Guadalupe County, Lincoln County, Quay County, Roosevelt County within New Mexico. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.