THE WHITE PINE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Carbonate Sagebrush Valleys setting.
White Pine County has 8,886.7 square miles of land in Nevada. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across White Pine County: Carbonate Sagebrush Valleys, Carbonate Woodland Zone, Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins, 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
White Pine County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Carbonate Sagebrush Valleys42.8%
- Carbonate Woodland Zone35.3%
- Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins8.9%
- High Elevation Carbonate Mountains8%
- Sagebrush Basins and Slopes2.8%
Finding your parcel within White Pine County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with White Pine County, including Ely, Lund, Preston. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
White Pine County by land and water
The Census records 9.05 square miles of water within White Pine County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to White Pine County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, White Pine County has 7,344.4 times the land area of nearby McGill CDP (1.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Elko County, Eureka County, Lincoln County, Nye County within Nevada. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

