THE FERRY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Okanogan Highland Dry Forest setting.
Ferry County has 2,203.2 square miles of land in Washington. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Ferry County: Okanogan Highland Dry Forest, Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills, Western Okanogan Semiarid Foothills, among others.
The Northern Rockies contain rugged ranges, glacial lakes and mixed conifer forests. Moist Pacific influences reach some inland valleys, producing forest communities unlike the drier mountain regions farther south.
Regional context: Northern Rockies ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Ferry County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Okanogan Highland Dry Forest54.4%
- Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills37.8%
- Western Okanogan Semiarid Foothills5.5%
- Channeled Scablands1.3%
- High Northern Rockies0.9%
Columbia Plateau in Ferry County
Basalt underlies this dry plateau of grassland and sagebrush. Windblown soils cover some uplands, while ancient flood paths exposed rock across the region's scabland terrain.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Ferry County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ferry County, including Inchelium, Keller, Curlew Lake. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ferry County by land and water
The Census records 54.2 square miles of water within Ferry County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Ferry County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ferry County has 4,496.4 times the land area of nearby Pine Grove CDP (0.49 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lincoln County, Okanogan County, Stevens County within Washington. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

