THE DUCHESNE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Uinta Basin Floor setting.
Duchesne city has 2.79 square miles of land in Duchesne County. Its Census reference point is in Uinta Basin Floor, 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
Duchesne and Duchesne County
Duchesne is associated with Duchesne 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.
Duchesne by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Duchesne, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points lower than the 0.5% recorded for Duchesne County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Duchesne city has 13.1 times the land area of nearby Altamont town (0.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

