THE CONVERSE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Powder River Basin setting.
Converse County has 4,255 square miles of land in Wyoming. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Converse County: Powder River Basin, Foothill Shrublands, Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests, among others.
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.
Regional context: Northwestern Great Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Converse County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Powder River Basin71.9%
- Foothill Shrublands12.7%
- Crystalline Mid-Elevation Forests8.5%
- Pine Scoria Hills3.8%
- Sandy and Silty Tablelands3.2%
Southern Rockies in Converse County
Steep mountains rise through distinct vegetation bands, from lower grass and shrub country to conifers and alpine terrain. Elevation is a defining difference across Southern Rocky Mountain landscapes.
Read the regional source ↗High Plains in Converse County
Broad, comparatively smooth plains distinguish the High Plains from neighboring broken terrain. The natural grassland setting is drier and higher than the Central Great Plains to the east.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Converse County
The atlas lists 6 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Converse County, including Douglas, Esterbrook, Glenrock. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Converse County by land and water
The Census records 10.1 square miles of water within Converse County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Converse County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Converse County has 5,035.5 times the land area of nearby Rolling Hills town (0.85 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Albany County, Campbell County, Carbon County, Johnson County, Natrona County, Niobrara County, Platte County, Weston County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

