THE SWEETWATER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Sagebrush Steppe setting.
Sweetwater County has 10,427 square miles of land in Wyoming. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Sweetwater County: Rolling Sagebrush Steppe, Salt Desert Shrub Basins, Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains.
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
Sweetwater County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Sagebrush Steppe69.6%
- Salt Desert Shrub Basins22.5%
- Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains8%
Finding your parcel within Sweetwater County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sweetwater County, including Farson, Rock Springs, North Rock Springs. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sweetwater County by land and water
The Census records 64.2 square miles of water within Sweetwater County, or 0.6% of its total area. That share is close to Sweetwater County’s 0.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sweetwater County has 4,818.4 times the land area of nearby Point of Rocks CDP (2.16 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carbon County, Fremont County, Lincoln County, Sublette County, Uinta County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.