THE PRICE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins setting.
Price city has 5.03 square miles of land in Carbon County. Its Census reference point is in Shale Deserts and Sedimentary Basins, 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
Price and Carbon County
Price is associated with Carbon 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.
Price by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Price, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.4 percentage points lower than the 0.4% recorded for Carbon County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Price city has 4.7 times the land area of nearby West Wood CDP (1.07 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

