THE KANE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands setting.
Kane County has 3,994.1 square miles of land in Utah. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Kane County: Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands, Arid Canyonlands, Escarpments, among others.
Layered sedimentary rock forms mesas, benches, cliffs and deeply cut canyons. Pinyon-juniper woodland, oak and drier basin vegetation vary with elevation and the plateau's strongly contrasting terrain.
Regional context: Colorado Plateaus ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Kane County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands58.3%
- Arid Canyonlands24.1%
- Escarpments10.6%
- High Plateaus4%
- Semiarid Foothills1.6%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Kane 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 Kane County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kane County, including Kanab, Orderville, Glendale. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kane County by land and water
The Census records 113.1 square miles of water within Kane County, or 2.8% of its total area. That share is close to Kane County’s 2.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kane County has 666.6 times the land area of nearby Big Water town (5.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Garfield County, Iron County, San Juan County, Washington County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

