THE UINTA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Rolling Sagebrush Steppe setting.
Uinta County has 2,081.7 square miles of land in Wyoming. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Uinta County: Rolling Sagebrush Steppe, Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains, Sub-Irrigated High Valleys, 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
Uinta County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Rolling Sagebrush Steppe34.9%
- Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains30.8%
- Sub-Irrigated High Valleys17.6%
- Mid-Elevation Uinta Mountains9.5%
- Salt Desert Shrub Basins7.2%
Wasatch and Uinta Mountains in Uinta County
High, steep mountains and narrow valleys form the core of the Wasatch and Uinta ranges. Woodland, aspen and conifers change with elevation, with dissected plateaus along parts of the margins.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Uinta County
The atlas lists 9 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Uinta County, including Lonetree, Evanston, Carter. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Uinta County by land and water
The Census records 6.41 square miles of water within Uinta County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Uinta County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Uinta County has 1,045.6 times the land area of nearby Fort Bridger CDP (1.99 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Lincoln County, Sweetwater County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

