THE UINTAH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Uinta Basin Floor setting.
Uintah County has 4,482.9 square miles of land in Utah. 7 mapped landscape regions meet across Uintah County: Uinta Basin Floor, Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands, Mid-Elevation Uinta Mountains, 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
Uintah County intersects 7 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Uinta Basin Floor46.5%
- Semiarid Benchlands and Canyonlands37.3%
- Mid-Elevation Uinta Mountains6.4%
- Northern Uinta Basin Slopes5.2%
- Escarpments2.6%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Uintah 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 Uintah County
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Uintah County, including Ballard, Fort Duchesne, Naples. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Uintah County by land and water
The Census records 21.6 square miles of water within Uintah County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Uintah County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Uintah County has 858.3 times the land area of nearby Randlett CDP (5.22 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carbon County, Daggett County, Duchesne County, Grand County within Utah. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

