Eastern Plains
Yuma County
Property taxes, marriage licenses, vehicle services, and many public records run through Yuma County. Permits and local rules may sit with a town or city instead, so match the office to the exact address.
Official county shortcuts
Take the task to the office that handles it
These links go straight to the official county or regional office shown. Check that page for current documents, hours, appointments, fees, and address-specific instructions. A city may run its own permit office.
Property tax snapshot
Typical property tax in Yuma County
The average total mill levy across Yuma County was about 75.1 mills for tax year 2023 — below the statewide average of about 81 mills. On a $500,000 home, that comes to roughly $2,474 a year, using Colorado's 2026 residential rules: 7.05% on school mills, and 6.8% on the rest after the local actual-value adjustment.
This is the county average across all tax areas. Your parcel's actual mill levy depends on its exact tax area — a metro or special district can add many mills on top — so confirm the real number with the county assessor.
Sales tax: the state charges 2.9% and Yuma County adds no county sales tax — cities and special districts still can. See Colorado sales tax rates ->
Source: Colorado Division of Property Taxation, 53rd Annual Report (2023) — Average Levies by County.
Incorporated places in this county
These cities and towns touch Yuma County. Some cross a county line. Every name opens a direct place page, and selected places include a fuller local guide.
Get to know Yuma County
The history, land, and character behind the place.
Water and land
In Yuma County, groundwater comes with the Republican River Compact
Most irrigation in Yuma County draws on the Ogallala Aquifer in a basin governed by an interstate compact, so pumping here is administered, not unlimited.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire
Bird hunting in Yuma County runs on access programs, not open land
Most Yuma County land is private. Public bird hunting uses state wildlife areas and enrolled Walk-In Access parcels, each with its own rules.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire
Spring booming grounds: greater prairie-chickens in the Yuma County sandhills
The sandhills of northern and central Yuma County hold greater prairie-chickens that gather on spring leks to perform a booming courtship display.
Read note ->Outdoors and wildfire
Bonny is now a wildlife area, and the lake is much smaller than the maps show
The old Bonny Lake State Park on the Republican River became South Republican State Wildlife Area, so the rules and the reservoir itself are not what older maps suggest.
Read note ->Money and taxes (7)
Money and taxes
A Yuma County tax lien sale is not the same as losing the land that day
A Yuma County tax lien sale is not the day you lose the land; a redemption period still lets you clear the taxes and interest.
Read note ->Money and taxes
In Yuma County, a missed tax notice does not erase the tax
In Yuma County you owe property tax whether or not the statement reaches you, so a missing notice is a reason to call the Treasurer.
Read note ->Home and property (8)
Home and property
A new Yuma County address needs more than a road name
A new Yuma County address goes through the Assessor and needs a measurement from the nearest west or south section line to your access road.
Read note ->Home and property
A Yuma County driveway approach needs Road and Bridge attention
On a rural Yuma County parcel, a new driveway approach needs Road and Bridge approval, and you may pay for the approach and culvert.
Read note ->Water and land (3)
Water and land
A house well in Yuma County is not the same as an irrigation well
A domestic well that serves a Yuma County home comes with permit conditions and use limits that are very different from a big irrigation well.
Read note ->Water and land
Why Colorado's northeast corner looks like desert: the Wray sandhills and Arikaree River
Yuma County's far corner is a stabilized sand-dune country of sandsage shrub, and the Beecher Island nature trail near the cottonwood-lined Arikaree River lets you walk it.
Read note ->Cars and driving (1)
Local rules (1)
History and culture (3)
History and culture
A Smithsonian Ice Age Bison Hunt, Displayed in Downtown Wray
The Wray Museum on the Eastern Plains holds a permanent Smithsonian paleo-Indian exhibit built around a real Ice Age bison-kill bone bed.
Read note ->History and culture
Old Threshers Day in Yuma: a harvest run on steam
Each year the weekend following Labor Day, Yuma fires up antique steam engines and threshing machines and works real wheat the old way, twice a day.
Read note ->Nearby counties
Other Eastern Plains counties — rules, rates, and districts shift across county lines.