THE CASS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Itasca and St. Louis Moraines setting.
Cass County has 2,021.5 square miles of land in Minnesota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Cass County: Itasca and St. Louis Moraines, Chippewa Plains, Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till 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
Cass County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Itasca and St. Louis Moraines61.5%
- Chippewa Plains30.9%
- Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain6.4%
- Nashwauk/Marcell Moraines and Uplands1.2%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Cass 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 Cass County
The atlas lists 65 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cass County, including Trelipe, Otter Tail Peninsula, May. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cass County by land and water
The Census records 392.5 square miles of water within Cass County, or 16.3% of its total area. That share is close to Cass County’s 16.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cass County has 79.5 times the land area of nearby Woodrow township (25.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aitkin County, Beltrami County, Crow Wing County, Hubbard County, Itasca County, Morrison County, Todd County, Wadena County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

