THE FREMONT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Sagebrush Steppe setting.
Fremont County has 9,183.6 square miles of land in Wyoming. 13 mapped landscape regions meet across Fremont County: Rolling Sagebrush Steppe, Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains, Bighorn Salt Desert Shrub Basins, 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
Fremont County intersects 13 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Sagebrush Steppe52.3%
- Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains11.6%
- Bighorn Salt Desert Shrub Basins9.1%
- Alpine Zone6.6%
- Granitic Subalpine Zone6.2%
Middle Rockies in Fremont 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 ↗Finding your parcel within Fremont County
The atlas lists 14 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fremont County, including Ethete, Johnstown, Crowheart. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fremont County by land and water
The Census records 82.1 square miles of water within Fremont County, or 0.9% of its total area. That share is close to Fremont County’s 0.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fremont County has 291.1 times the land area of nearby Johnstown CDP (31.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carbon County, Hot Springs County, Natrona County, Park County, Sublette County, Sweetwater County, Teton County, Washakie County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

