THE DAVIS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Salt Deserts setting.
Davis County has 324.8 square miles of land in Utah. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Davis County: Salt Deserts, Moist Wasatch Front Footslopes, Semiarid Foothills, 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
Davis County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Salt Deserts56.7%
- Moist Wasatch Front Footslopes18.9%
- Semiarid Foothills10.1%
- Sagebrush Basins and Slopes7%
- Wetlands3.8%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Davis 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 Davis County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Davis County, including Layton, Bountiful, Kaysville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Davis County by land and water
The Census records 310.5 square miles of water within Davis County, or 48.9% of its total area. That share is close to Davis County’s 48.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Davis County has 31.2 times the land area of nearby Syracuse city (10.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Box Elder County, Morgan County, Salt Lake County, Tooele County, Weber County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

