THE GARFIELD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands setting.
Garfield County has 5,179.6 square miles of land in Utah. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Garfield County: Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands, High Plateaus, Arid Canyonlands, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Garfield County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands33.4%
- High Plateaus19.8%
- Arid Canyonlands12.9%
- Semiarid Foothills12.7%
- Escarpments12.3%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Garfield County
High, steep mountains and narrow valleys form the core of the Wasatch and Uinta ranges. Woodland, aspen and conifers change with elevation, with dissected plateaus along parts of the margins.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Garfield County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Garfield County, including Boulder, Antimony, Tropic. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Garfield County by land and water
The Census records 29.3 square miles of water within Garfield County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Garfield County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Garfield County has 247.3 times the land area of nearby Boulder town (20.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beaver County, Iron County, Kane County, Piute County, San Juan County, Wayne County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

