THE TOOELE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Salt Deserts setting.
Tooele County has 7,040.3 square miles of land in Utah. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Tooele County: Salt Deserts, Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins, Sagebrush Basins and Slopes, 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
Tooele County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Salt Deserts44.1%
- Shadscale-Dominated Saline Basins23.2%
- Sagebrush Basins and Slopes18.5%
- Woodland- and Shrub-Covered Low Mountains13%
- High Elevation Carbonate Mountains0.9%
Finding your parcel within Tooele County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Tooele County, including Grantsville, Erda, Tooele. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Tooele County by land and water
The Census records 245.7 square miles of water within Tooele County, or 3.4% of its total area. That share is close to Tooele County’s 3.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tooele County has 1,351.3 times the land area of nearby Dugway CDP (5.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Box Elder County, Davis County, Juab County, Salt Lake County, Utah County, Weber County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

