THE GOGEBIC COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Superior Mineral Ranges setting.
Gogebic County has 1,102.1 square miles of land in Michigan. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Gogebic County: Superior Mineral Ranges, Winegar Dead Ice Moraine, Northern Wisconsin Highlands Lakes Country, among others.
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
Gogebic County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Superior Mineral Ranges39.4%
- Winegar Dead Ice Moraine37.5%
- Northern Wisconsin Highlands Lakes Country12.9%
- Lake Superior Clay Plain8.4%
- Brule and Paint River Drumlins1.9%
Finding your parcel within Gogebic County
The atlas lists 12 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Gogebic County, including Marenisco, Watersmeet, Wakefield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Gogebic County by land and water
The Census records 374.6 square miles of water within Gogebic County, or 25.4% of its total area. That share is close to Gogebic County’s 25.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Gogebic County has 6.1 times the land area of nearby Wakefield township (180.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Iron County, Ontonagon County within Michigan. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

