THE MOUNTAIN HOME LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Mountain Home Uplands setting.
Mountain Home city has 7.24 square miles of land in Elmore County. Its Census reference point is in Mountain Home Uplands, within Snake River Plain.
The Snake River Plain is lower and gentler than its surrounding mountains. Alluvial valleys, sagebrush-covered plains, low hills and scattered lava fields form its principal landscape patterns.
Regional context: Snake River Plain ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Mountain Home and Elmore County
Mountain Home is associated with Elmore County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Mountain Home by land and water
The Census records 0.29 square miles of water within Mountain Home, or 3.9% of its total area. It is 3 percentage points higher than the 0.9% recorded for Elmore County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mountain Home city has 72.6% of the land area of nearby Mountain Home AFB CDP (9.97 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

