THE TUOLUMNE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Sierra Subalpine Forests setting.
Tuolumne County has 2,220.9 square miles of land in California. 9 mapped landscape regions meet across Tuolumne County: Southern Sierra Subalpine Forests, Central Sierra Lower Montane Forests, Northern Sierran Foothills, among others.
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.
Regional context: Sierra Nevada ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Tuolumne County intersects 9 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Sierra Subalpine Forests16.7%
- Central Sierra Lower Montane Forests16.2%
- Northern Sierran Foothills15.5%
- Central Sierra Mid-Montane Forests15%
- Northern Sierra Upper Montane Forests12.8%
Central California Foothills and Coastal Mountains in Tuolumne County
Oak woodland, chaparral and grassland occupy foothills and low coastal mountains around the Central Valley. Narrow agricultural valleys interrupt this landscape of dry summers and wetter winters.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Tuolumne County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tuolumne County, including Pine Mountain Lake, Phoenix Lake, Groveland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tuolumne County by land and water
The Census records 53.5 square miles of water within Tuolumne County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Tuolumne County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tuolumne County has 769.3 times the land area of nearby Long Barn CDP (2.89 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Alpine County, Calaveras County, Madera County, Mariposa County, Mono County, Stanislaus County within California. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

