THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess Islands setting.
Lincoln County has 2,310.6 square miles of land in Washington. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Loess Islands, Channeled Scablands.
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
Lincoln County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Loess Islands54.4%
- Channeled Scablands45.6%
Finding your parcel within Lincoln County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Davenport, Wilbur, Sprague. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 29.1 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 5,924.6 times the land area of nearby Harrington city (0.39 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Ferry County, Grant County, Okanogan County, Spokane County, Stevens County, Whitman County within Washington. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

