THE SAN JUAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
San Juan Islands setting.
San Juan County has 173.9 square miles of land in Washington. The mapped landscape region in San Juan County is San Juan Islands.
A glacial lowland surrounds Puget Sound with islands, bays, peninsulas and rolling terrain. Moraines, outwash plains and river terraces create a varied setting beneath the region's maritime climate.
Regional context: Puget Lowland ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within San Juan County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with San Juan County, including Roche Harbor, Friday Harbor. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
San Juan County by land and water
The Census records 446.9 square miles of water within San Juan County, or 72% of its total area. That share is close to San Juan County’s 72%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, San Juan County has 79.5 times the land area of nearby Friday Harbor town (2.19 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clallam County, Island County, Jefferson County, Skagit County, Whatcom County within Washington. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

