Utah Counties Map: Click All 29 Counties

How many counties are in Utah?

Utah has 29 counties. 35 states have more, and 13 have fewer.

Utah has 29 counties. Salt Lake County holds the capital and the most people, and most Utahns live along the Wasatch Front from Weber County to Utah County. San Juan County, in the southeast corner, is the largest and reaches the Four Corners.

How Utah's counties were formed

Utah's first counties were created by the provisional State of Deseret and the territorial legislature around 1850, starting with settlements along the Wasatch Front. Many later counties were split from huge originals as Latter-day Saint settlements spread south and east. Daggett County, split from Uintah County in 1917, is the 29th and last. Its 2020 population was 935.

Utah regions and the counties in each

Utah has three land regions. The Wasatch Front and Rocky Mountains in the north hold Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, Utah and Summit counties, with the Uinta Mountains reaching east into Duchesne, Uintah and Daggett. The Basin and Range in the west includes Box Elder, Tooele, Juab and Millard counties, with the Great Salt Lake and the Bonneville Salt Flats. The Colorado Plateau in the south and east covers Grand (Moab and Arches), San Juan, Garfield, Kane and Washington (St. George and Zion).

Notable places on the Utah county map

Kings Peak, the state's highest point at 13,528 feet, is in Duchesne County in the Uinta Mountains. Utah has five national parks: Arches (Grand County), Canyonlands (mostly San Juan and Wayne), Capitol Reef (mostly Wayne), Bryce Canyon (Garfield and Kane) and Zion (Washington, Iron and Kane). The Golden Spike that finished the first transcontinental railroad was driven at Promontory Summit in Box Elder County in 1869.

Utah counties map: the biggest and smallest

San Juan County is the largest county in Utah, with 7,820 square miles of land, about 9% of the state. That's more land than 6 whole states, including Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii and others. Davis County is the smallest, at 299 square miles.

The smallest counties by land area are Davis County (299 sq mi), Weber County (576 sq mi) and Morgan County (609 sq mi).

Which counties in Utah have the most people?

Salt Lake County has the most people, about 1,216,274 in the Census Bureau's July 2024 estimate, or 35% of everyone in Utah. The three biggest counties together hold 67% of the state's 3,503,613 people. Daggett County has the fewest, about 956.

The most crowded is Salt Lake County, with about 1,639 people per square mile. The emptiest is Garfield County, with about 1 person per square mile. Comparing the two is a quick way to show children that a big county on the map isn't always a big county in people.

What county is Salt Lake City in?

Salt Lake City, the capital of Utah, is in Salt Lake County. It's also the county with the most people. Utah is called the Beehive State, and it became the 45th state in 1896.

Counties on the Utah border

Learning the edge of the map first gives children a frame to fill in. Utah shares a border with Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming.

How Utah's counties compare with other states

Utah ranks 12th among the 50 states in land area and 30th in population. Its average county covers about 2,841 square miles and holds about 120,814 people. Across the 50 states, the average county-level area covers about 1,139 square miles and holds about 109,381 people, so Utah's counties are bigger than usual in size. Bigger counties mean fewer names to learn for a state this size.

Landmarks for learning the counties of Utah

• The Wasatch Front counties (Weber, Davis, Salt Lake, Utah) run north to south in the north-central part of the state.
• San Juan County is the southeast corner at the Four Corners.
• Washington County (St. George) is the southwest corner.

With 29 counties, you can take on the whole map at once in a Practice round. Then print the Utah county map worksheet to check that it sticks on paper.

All 29 Utah counties

Every county on the map, A to Z, with its land area and July 2024 population estimate.

Utah geography for homeschoolers

Pair this map with the West states and capitals quiz and the US states quiz. If you teach at home, see homeschooling in utah, and check utah school choice to see whether a program may help pay for Utah history and geography curriculum. Each program decides what it covers.