THE BOULDER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Escarpments setting.
Boulder town has 20.9 square miles of land in Garfield County. Its Census reference point is in Escarpments, 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
Boulder and Garfield County
Boulder is associated with Garfield 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.
Boulder by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Boulder, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.6 percentage points lower than the 0.6% recorded for Garfield County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Boulder town has 6.3 times the land area of nearby Escalante city (3.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

