THE BLUFF LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Arid Canyonlands setting.
Bluff town has 36.6 square miles of land in San Juan County. Its Census reference point is in Arid Canyonlands, within Colorado Plateaus.
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.
Regional context: Colorado Plateaus ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Bluff and San Juan County
Bluff is associated with San Juan County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Bluff by land and water
The Census records 0.33 square miles of water within Bluff, or 0.9% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points lower than the 1.4% recorded for San Juan County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bluff town has 1.8 times the land area of nearby Tselakai Dezza CDP (20 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

