THE JUAB COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Sagebrush Basins and Slopes setting.
Juab County has 3,391.8 square miles of land in Utah. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Juab County: Sagebrush Basins and Slopes, Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins, Woodland- and Shrub-Covered Low Mountains, 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
Juab County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Sagebrush Basins and Slopes38.5%
- Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins32.8%
- Woodland- and Shrub-Covered Low Mountains15.4%
- Semiarid Foothills5%
- Salt Deserts3.9%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Juab 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 Juab County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Juab County, including Santaquin, Nephi, Mona. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Juab County by land and water
The Census records 14 square miles of water within Juab County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Juab County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Juab County has 2,340.8 times the land area of nearby Eureka city (1.45 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Millard County, Sanpete County, Tooele County, Utah County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

