THE BENTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
McGrath Till Plain and Drumlins setting.
Benton County has 408.3 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Benton County: McGrath Till Plain and Drumlins, Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley Outwash.
This transition between northern forests and southern farming country includes lakes, wetlands and hardwood woodland. Glacial landforms support a mosaic of open land and wooded areas.
Regional context: North Central Hardwood Forests ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Benton County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- McGrath Till Plain and Drumlins77.3%
- Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley Outwash22.7%
Finding your parcel within Benton County
The atlas lists 20 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Benton County, including St. Cloud, Langola, Mayhew Lake. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Benton County by land and water
The Census records 4.74 square miles of water within Benton County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Benton County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Benton County has 12.2 times the land area of nearby Gilmanton township (33.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Mille Lacs County, Morrison County, Sherburne County, Stearns County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

