THE LINCOLN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains setting.
Lincoln County has 4,075.3 square miles of land in Wyoming. 9 mapped landscape regions meet across Lincoln County: Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains, Rolling Sagebrush Steppe, 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
Lincoln County intersects 9 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains21.9%
- Rolling Sagebrush Steppe17.8%
- Mid-elevation Sedimentary Mountains17.8%
- Sedimentary Subalpine Zone14.1%
- Salt Desert Shrub Basins8.6%
Middle Rockies in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lincoln County, including Kemmerer, Nordic, Alpine Northeast. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lincoln County by land and water
The Census records 19.3 square miles of water within Lincoln County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Lincoln County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lincoln County has 3,191.3 times the land area of nearby Cokeville town (1.28 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Sublette County, Sweetwater County, Teton County, Uinta County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

