THE LARAMIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Moderate Relief Plains setting.
Laramie County has 2,685.9 square miles of land in Wyoming. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Laramie County: Moderate Relief Plains, Flat to Rolling Plains, Foothill Shrublands, among others.
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Laramie County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Moderate Relief Plains49.2%
- Flat to Rolling Plains30.7%
- Foothill Shrublands17.3%
- Pine Bluffs and Hills2.5%
- Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests0.3%
Southern Rockies in Laramie County
Steep mountains rise through distinct vegetation bands, from lower grass and shrub country to conifers and alpine terrain. Elevation is a defining difference across Southern Rocky Mountain landscapes.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Laramie County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Laramie County, including Ranchettes, Cheyenne, Warren AFB. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Laramie County by land and water
The Census records 1.68 square miles of water within Laramie County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Laramie County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Laramie County has 55.2 times the land area of nearby Ranchettes CDP (48.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Albany County, Goshen County, Platte County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

