THE PEND OREILLE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Selkirk Mountains setting.
Pend Oreille County has 1,400.2 square miles of land in Washington. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Pend Oreille County: Selkirk Mountains, Inland Maritime Foothills and Valleys, Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and 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
Pend Oreille County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Selkirk Mountains68.1%
- Inland Maritime Foothills and Valleys24.4%
- Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills5.1%
- High Northern Rockies1.1%
- Spokane Valley Outwash Plains1%
Finding your parcel within Pend Oreille County
The atlas lists 5 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Pend Oreille County, including Newport, Ione, Cusick. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Pend Oreille County by land and water
The Census records 25.3 square miles of water within Pend Oreille County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Pend Oreille County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Pend Oreille County has 2,756.4 times the land area of nearby Cusick town (0.51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Spokane County, Stevens County within Washington. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.