THE INYO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Western Mojave Low Ranges and Arid Footslopes setting.
Inyo County has 10,197.3 square miles of land in California. 23 mapped landscape regions meet across Inyo County: Western Mojave Low Ranges and Arid Footslopes, Eastern Mojave Low Ranges and Arid Footslopes, Western Mojave Basins, among others.
Broad dry basins and scattered ranges define the Mojave landscape. Creosote scrub, yuccas and Joshua trees occur regionally, with different plant communities on alkali flats and higher mountains.
Regional context: Mojave Basin and Range ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Inyo County intersects 23 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Western Mojave Low Ranges and Arid Footslopes26.8%
- Eastern Mojave Low Ranges and Arid Footslopes11.6%
- Western Mojave Basins10.8%
- Death Valley/Mojave Central Trough7.9%
- Amargosa Desert7.2%
Central Basin and Range in Inyo County
North-trending mountain blocks separate dry interior basins. Alluvial fans connect the ranges to valley floors, while vegetation changes from sparse basin shrubs to woodland and forest at higher elevations.
Read the regional source ↗Sierra Nevada in Inyo County
A high mountain block slopes west toward California's Central Valley and drops sharply on its eastern side. Granite landscapes, glacial basins and elevation-dependent conifer forests are prominent regional features.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Inyo County
The atlas lists 21 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Inyo County, including Furnace Creek, Shoshone, Lone Pine. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Inyo County by land and water
The Census records 29.8 square miles of water within Inyo County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Inyo County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Inyo County has 7,581.6 times the land area of nearby Darwin CDP (1.35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fresno County, Kern County, Mono County, San Bernardino County, Tulare County within California. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

