THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Snake River Basalt Plains setting.
Lincoln County has 1,201.4 square miles of land in Idaho. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Eastern Snake River Basalt Plains, Mountain Home Uplands, Magic Valley, among others.
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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Lincoln County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Snake River Basalt Plains64.9%
- Mountain Home Uplands13%
- Magic Valley11.3%
- Lava Fields8.2%
- Semiarid Foothills2.6%
Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Shoshone, Richfield, Dietrich. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 4.47 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 1,831.3 times the land area of nearby Richfield city (0.66 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blaine County, Camas County, Gooding County, Jerome County, Minidoka County within Idaho. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

