THE BROWN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Des Moines Lobe setting.
Brown County has 611.1 square miles of land in Minnesota. The mapped landscape region in Brown County is Des Moines Lobe.
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
Finding your parcel within Brown County
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Brown County, including Home, Eden, Sigel. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Brown County by land and water
The Census records 7.16 square miles of water within Brown County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Brown County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Brown County has 17.2 times the land area of nearby Stark township (35.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blue Earth County, Cottonwood County, Nicollet County, Redwood County, Renville County, Watonwan County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

