THE NEWAYGO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Newaygo Barrens setting.
Newaygo County has 838.9 square miles of land in Michigan. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Newaygo County: Newaygo Barrens, Cadillac Hummocky Moraines, Michigan Lake Plain, 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
Newaygo County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Newaygo Barrens63.4%
- Cadillac Hummocky Moraines14.2%
- Michigan Lake Plain12.2%
- Lake Michigan Moraines5.9%
- Lansing Loamy Plain4.4%
Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains in Newaygo County
Lakes, marshes and complex glacial deposits create a varied landscape around southern Michigan and northern Indiana. Moraines, beach ridges, dunes, kettles and meltwater channels occur across the region.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Newaygo County
The atlas lists 29 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Newaygo County, including Troy, Barton, Bridgeton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Newaygo County by land and water
The Census records 22.8 square miles of water within Newaygo County, or 2.6% of its total area. That share is close to Newaygo County’s 2.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Newaygo County has 434 times the land area of nearby White Cloud city (1.93 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Kent County, Lake County, Mason County, Mecosta County, Montcalm County, Muskegon County, Oceana County, Osceola County within Michigan. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

