THE CHURCHILL COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lahontan Salt Shrub Basin setting.
Churchill County has 4,950.2 square miles of land in Nevada. 9 mapped landscape regions meet across Churchill County: Lahontan Salt Shrub Basin, Lahontan and Tonopah Playas, Central Nevada High Valleys, among others.
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.
Regional context: Central Basin and Range ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Churchill County intersects 9 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lahontan Salt Shrub Basin48.1%
- Lahontan and Tonopah Playas14.4%
- Central Nevada High Valleys10.4%
- Lahontan Sagebrush Slopes9.7%
- Central Nevada Mid-Slope Woodland and Brushland6.8%
Finding your parcel within Churchill County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Churchill County, including Fallon, Fallon Station. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Churchill County by land and water
The Census records 73.6 square miles of water within Churchill County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Churchill County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Churchill County has 1,741.2 times the land area of nearby Fallon Station CDP (2.84 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lander County, Lyon County, Mineral County, Nye County, Pershing County, Washoe County within Nevada. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

