THE BLUE EARTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Des Moines Lobe setting.
Blue Earth County has 747.8 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Blue Earth County: Des Moines Lobe, Big Woods.
Glacial till plains and windblown loess hills make up the Western Corn Belt landscape. Near-level and rolling terrain are interspersed with steeper river valleys and hills.
Regional context: Western Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Blue Earth County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Des Moines Lobe92.7%
- Big Woods7.3%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Blue Earth County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Blue Earth County
The atlas lists 36 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Blue Earth County, including Judson, Pleasant Mound, Lincoln. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Blue Earth County by land and water
The Census records 17.7 square miles of water within Blue Earth County, or 2.3% of its total area. That share is close to Blue Earth County’s 2.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Blue Earth County has 21.3 times the land area of nearby Rapidan township (35.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Faribault County, Le Sueur County, Martin County, Nicollet County, Waseca County, Watonwan County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.