THE PIUTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
High Plateaus setting.
Piute County has 758.2 square miles of land in Utah. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Piute County: High Plateaus, Semiarid Foothills, Mountain Valleys, 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
Piute County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- High Plateaus38.1%
- Semiarid Foothills35.8%
- Mountain Valleys24.2%
- Alpine Zone1.9%
Finding your parcel within Piute County
The atlas lists 4 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Piute County, including Marysvale, Junction, Circleville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Piute County by land and water
The Census records 7.83 square miles of water within Piute County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Piute County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Piute County has 57.5 times the land area of nearby Junction town (13.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beaver County, Garfield County, Sevier County, Wayne County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

