THE RICH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains setting.
Rich County has 1,028.8 square miles of land in Utah. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Rich County: Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains, Sub-Irrigated High Valleys, Wasatch Montane Zone, among others.
A broad dry basin is interrupted by hills and low mountains. Grassland and shrubland dominate the regional setting between the more heavily forested surrounding ranges.
Regional context: Wyoming Basin ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Rich County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains54.3%
- Sub-Irrigated High Valleys18.5%
- Wasatch Montane Zone13.7%
- Semiarid Foothills13.5%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Rich 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 Rich County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Rich County, including Garden, Garden City, Laketown. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Rich County by land and water
The Census records 57.6 square miles of water within Rich County, or 5.3% of its total area. That share is close to Rich County’s 5.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Rich County has 800.6 times the land area of nearby Randolph town (1.29 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cache County, Morgan County, Summit County, Weber County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

