THE STEVENS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills setting.
Stevens County has 2,477.1 square miles of land in Washington. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Stevens County: Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills, Selkirk Mountains, Western Selkirk Maritime Forest, 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
Stevens County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Okanogan-Colville Xeric Valleys and Foothills75.6%
- Selkirk Mountains13.4%
- Western Selkirk Maritime Forest6.3%
- Spokane Valley Outwash Plains2.2%
- Channeled Scablands1.3%
Columbia Plateau in Stevens 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 Stevens County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Stevens County, including Suncrest, Loon Lake, Colville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Stevens County by land and water
The Census records 62.9 square miles of water within Stevens County, or 2.5% of its total area. That share is close to Stevens County’s 2.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Stevens County has 7,037.2 times the land area of nearby Addy CDP (0.35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ferry County, Lincoln County, Pend Oreille County, Spokane County within Washington. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

