THE KLICKITAT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Yakima Folds setting.
Klickitat County has 1,871.6 square miles of land in Washington. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Klickitat County: Yakima Folds, Oak/Conifer Foothills, Yakima Plateau and Slopes, among others.
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.
Regional context: Columbia Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Klickitat County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Yakima Folds34.6%
- Oak/Conifer Foothills26.2%
- Yakima Plateau and Slopes24.8%
- Pleistocene Lake Basins9.8%
- Grand Fir Mixed Forest4.6%
Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills in Klickitat County
On the Cascades' drier eastern side, open pine forests mingle with volcanic cones, buttes and basins. Larger river valleys and lake basins interrupt the surrounding uplands.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Klickitat County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Klickitat County, including Trout Lake, Dallesport, Bickleton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Klickitat County by land and water
The Census records 32.8 square miles of water within Klickitat County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Klickitat County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Klickitat County has 632.3 times the land area of nearby Goldendale city (2.96 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Benton County, Skamania County, Yakima County within Washington. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

