THE CHIPPEWA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Des Moines Lobe setting.
Chippewa County has 581.2 square miles of land in Minnesota. The mapped landscape region in Chippewa 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 Chippewa County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Chippewa County, including Kragero, Sparta, Lone Tree. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Chippewa County by land and water
The Census records 6.66 square miles of water within Chippewa County, or 1.1% of its total area. That share is close to Chippewa County’s 1.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Chippewa County has 16.2 times the land area of nearby Havelock township (35.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Kandiyohi County, Lac qui Parle County, Renville County, Swift County, Yellow Medicine County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

