THE CLARK COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Eastern Mojave Basins setting.
Clark County has 7,891.7 square miles of land in Nevada. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Clark County: Eastern Mojave Basins, Eastern Mojave Low Ranges and Arid Footslopes, Arid Valleys and Canyonlands, 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
Clark County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Eastern Mojave Basins49.2%
- Eastern Mojave Low Ranges and Arid Footslopes24.1%
- Arid Valleys and Canyonlands14.4%
- Eastern Mojave Mountain Woodland and Shrubland6.2%
- Amargosa Desert3.7%
Arizona/New Mexico Plateau in Clark County
Plains and mesa tops alternate with steep tableland edges in this transition between deserts, grasslands and forested mountains. Local relief changes sharply even within the broader plateau setting.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Clark County
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Clark County, including Boulder City, Las Vegas, Henderson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Clark County by land and water
The Census records 169.3 square miles of water within Clark County, or 2.1% of its total area. That share is close to Clark County’s 2.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Clark County has 234.1 times the land area of nearby Sunrise Manor CDP (33.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lincoln County, Nye County within Nevada. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

