THE BARAGA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Keweenaw-Baraga Moraines setting.
Baraga County has 898.4 square miles of land in Michigan. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Baraga County: Keweenaw-Baraga Moraines, Winegar Dead Ice Moraine, Michigamme Highland.
Glacial hills, till plains, sandy outwash and old lake basins create a varied northern landscape. Conifer and hardwood forests surround many lakes across these glacially shaped uplands.
Regional context: Northern Lakes and Forests ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Baraga County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Keweenaw-Baraga Moraines36.9%
- Winegar Dead Ice Moraine32.4%
- Michigamme Highland30.6%
Finding your parcel within Baraga County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Baraga County, including L'Anse, Covington, Baraga. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Baraga County by land and water
The Census records 170.5 square miles of water within Baraga County, or 16% of its total area. That share is close to Baraga County’s 16%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Baraga County has 3.6 times the land area of nearby L'Anse township (247.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Houghton County, Iron County, Marquette County within Michigan. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

