THE MILLARD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins setting.
Millard County has 6,785.5 square miles of land in Utah. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Millard County: Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins, Sagebrush Basins and Slopes, 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
Millard County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins46%
- Sagebrush Basins and Slopes31.7%
- Woodland- and Shrub-Covered Low Mountains10.1%
- Salt Deserts6.6%
- Semiarid Foothills3.6%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Millard 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 Millard County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Millard County, including Delta, Fillmore, Hinckley. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Millard County by land and water
The Census records 51.5 square miles of water within Millard County, or 0.8% of its total area. That share is close to Millard County’s 0.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Millard County has 2,211 times the land area of nearby Deseret CDP (3.07 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beaver County, Juab County, Sanpete County, Sevier County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

