THE KANAB LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sand Deserts setting.
Kanab city has 15.5 square miles of land in Kane County. Its Census reference point is in Sand Deserts, 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
Kanab and Kane County
Kanab is associated with Kane 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.
Kanab by land and water
The Census records 0.04 square miles of water within Kanab, or 0.2% of its total area. It is 2.5 percentage points lower than the 2.8% recorded for Kane County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kanab city has 1.6 times the land area of nearby Orderville town (9.41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

