THE GOSHEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Platte River Valley and Terraces setting.
Goshen County has 2,225.6 square miles of land in Wyoming. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Goshen County: Platte River Valley and Terraces, Sandy and Silty Tablelands, Flat to Rolling Plains, among others.
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.
Regional context: High Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Goshen County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Platte River Valley and Terraces41.8%
- Sandy and Silty Tablelands35.4%
- Flat to Rolling Plains9.6%
- Pine Bluffs and Hills9.2%
- Moderate Relief Plains4%
Finding your parcel within Goshen County
The atlas lists 8 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Goshen County, including Torrington, Hawk Springs, Veteran. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Goshen County by land and water
The Census records 6.55 square miles of water within Goshen County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Goshen County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Goshen County has 7,249.6 times the land area of nearby Lingle town (0.31 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Laramie County, Niobrara County, Platte County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

