Cassia County, Idaho Map
Explore Cassia County, Idaho with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 5 cities and towns in Cassia County below.
Interactive Map of Cassia County, Idaho
| County | Cassia |
| State | Idaho (ID) |
| County Seat | Burley |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 42.403244 |
| Longitude | -113.65001 |
| Cities & Towns | 5 |
| Area Codes | 208 |
About Cassia County, Idaho
Cassia County occupies a rugged expanse of southern Idaho where the Snake River marks a northern boundary of basaltic cliffs and deep, cold currents. To the south, the terrain climbs into the high, jagged reaches of the Albion Mountains and the Sublett Range, where the air thins and the sagebrush yields to stands of aspen and lodgepole pine. This is a landscape defined by the tension between the arid, volcanic plains and the steep, uplifted granite that catches the first light of morning, turning the gray stone into a bruised, glowing violet. The land here does not soften for the traveler; it stretches out in vast, wind-scoured basins that hold the heat of the sun long after the shadows have lengthened, creating a shimmering, restless atmosphere that seems to vibrate against the stillness of the horizon.
Cassia County emerged from the territorial era as a response to the movement of people across the high desert, formalizing its boundaries in the late nineteenth century to govern a population that had largely arrived in the wake of the California Trail. The seat of government was placed in a central valley, selected for its proximity to the water sources that made permanent settlement possible in such an unforgiving climate. Over the decades, the administrative center grew from a collection of timber and stone structures into a grid of wide streets that prioritize the movement of cattle and heavy machinery. The history of this place is written in the way the town squares are oriented toward the mountains, a silent acknowledgment that the people here have always been tethered to the whims of the high-altitude weather and the seasonal cycles of the river basin.
Agriculture and the extraction of mineral wealth define the current rhythm of life, where the focus remains on the cultivation of sugar beets, potatoes, and grain under the massive, rotating arms of irrigation pivots. The character of the county is found in the quiet intensity of a workday that begins well before dawn, when the frost still clings to the metal gates and the sky is a pale, brittle blue. Landmarks consist of monolithic rock formations that rise abruptly from the flatlands, their surfaces weathered into strange, porous shapes that seem to watch the passage of time with a cold indifference. As evening approaches, the dust kicked up by passing trucks catches the fading light, casting a hazy, golden veil over the fields that renders the entire basin momentarily fragile and precious, grounding the industry of the present in the ancient, unyielding geology of the high desert.
Cities and Towns in Cassia County
About This Cassia County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Cassia County, Idaho alongside links to detailed street maps for 5 cities and towns. The county seat is Burley. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
