THE WASHAKIE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Bighorn Salt Desert Shrub Basins setting.
Washakie County has 2,238.7 square miles of land in Wyoming. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Washakie County: Bighorn Salt Desert Shrub Basins, Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains, Bighorn Basin, 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
Washakie County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Bighorn Salt Desert Shrub Basins42.7%
- Foothill Shrublands and Low Mountains27%
- Bighorn Basin25.5%
- Dry Mid-elevation Sedimentary Mountains3.6%
- Granitic Subalpine Zone1.2%
Middle Rockies in Washakie 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 Washakie County
The atlas lists 2 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Washakie County, including Worland, Ten Sleep. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Washakie County by land and water
The Census records 4.02 square miles of water within Washakie County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Washakie County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Washakie County has 11,907.9 times the land area of nearby Ten Sleep town (0.19 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Big Horn County, Fremont County, Hot Springs County, Johnson County, Natrona County, Park County within Wyoming. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

