THE BIG HORN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bighorn Salt Desert Shrub Basins setting.
Big Horn County has 3,137 square miles of land in Wyoming. 8 mapped landscape regions meet across Big Horn County: Bighorn Salt Desert Shrub Basins, Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains, Dry Mid-elevation Sedimentary Mountains, among others.
A broad dry basin is interrupted by hills and low mountains. Grassland and shrubland dominate the regional setting between the more heavily forested surrounding ranges.
Regional context: Wyoming Basin ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Big Horn County intersects 8 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Bighorn Salt Desert Shrub Basins64.2%
- Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains12.8%
- Dry Mid-elevation Sedimentary Mountains11%
- Granitic Subalpine Zone4.9%
- Alpine Zone3.4%
Middle Rockies in Big Horn County
Forested mountain ranges rise above grassy or shrubby intermountain valleys. The Middle Rockies combine alpine high country, partly wooded foothills and valleys supplied by mountain streams.
Read the regional source ↗Northwestern Great Plains in Big Horn County
Rolling semiarid plains are punctuated by buttes, badlands and river breaks. Much of the regional terrain developed on sandstone, siltstone and shale without the leveling influence of continental glaciers.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Big Horn County
The atlas lists 11 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Big Horn County, including Hyattville, Basin, Greybull. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Big Horn County by land and water
The Census records 21.3 square miles of water within Big Horn County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Big Horn County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Big Horn County has 1,416.9 times the land area of nearby Greybull town (2.21 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Johnson County, Park County, Sheridan County, Washakie County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

