THE BEAVER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Woodland- and Shrub-Covered Low Mountains setting.
Beaver County has 2,582.9 square miles of land in Utah. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Beaver County: Woodland- and Shrub-Covered Low Mountains, Sagebrush Basins and Slopes, 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
Beaver County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Woodland- and Shrub-Covered Low Mountains45.4%
- Sagebrush Basins and Slopes32.6%
- Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins13.2%
- High Plateaus5.7%
- Semiarid Foothills2.9%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Beaver County
High, steep mountains and narrow valleys form the core of the Wasatch and Uinta ranges. Woodland, aspen and conifers change with elevation, with dissected plateaus along parts of the margins.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Beaver County
The atlas lists 3 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Beaver County, including Beaver, Minersville, Milford. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Beaver County by land and water
The Census records 2.05 square miles of water within Beaver County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Beaver County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Beaver County has 1,206.4 times the land area of nearby Milford city (2.14 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Garfield County, Iron County, Millard County, Piute County, Sevier County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

