THE FORT DUCHESNE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Uinta Basin Floor setting.
Fort Duchesne CDP has 7.13 square miles of land in Uintah 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
Fort Duchesne and Uintah County
Fort Duchesne is associated with Uintah 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.
Fort Duchesne by land and water
The Census records 0.66 square miles of water within Fort Duchesne, or 8.4% of its total area. It is 8 percentage points higher than the 0.5% recorded for Uintah County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fort Duchesne CDP has 51.1% of the land area of nearby Ballard town (14 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

