THE CACHE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Semiarid Foothills setting.
Cache County has 1,164.7 square miles of land in Utah. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Cache County: Semiarid Foothills, Malad and Cache Valleys, Wasatch Montane Zone, among others.
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.
Regional context: Wasatch and Uinta Mountains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cache County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Semiarid Foothills35.6%
- Malad and Cache Valleys31.2%
- Wasatch Montane Zone26.5%
- Mountain Valleys4.2%
- Wetlands1.4%
Central Basin and Range in Cache County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Northern Basin and Range in Cache County
Lava plains, stony uplands, dry valleys and scattered ranges form the Northern Basin and Range. Sagebrush and grassland give way to juniper and other woodland in higher or rockier settings.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Cache County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cache County, including Benson, Lewiston, Peter. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cache County by land and water
The Census records 8.15 square miles of water within Cache County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Cache County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cache County has 1,764.7 times the land area of nearby River Heights city (0.66 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Box Elder County, Rich County, Weber County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

