THE CROW WING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Itasca and St. Louis Moraines setting.
Crow Wing County has 998.5 square miles of land in Minnesota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Crow Wing County: Itasca and St. Louis Moraines, Minnesota/Wisconsin Upland Till Plain, Glacial Lakes Upham and Aitkin.
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
Crow Wing County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Itasca and St. Louis Moraines51.4%
- Minnesota/Wisconsin Upland Till Plain46.4%
- Glacial Lakes Upham and Aitkin2.1%
Finding your parcel within Crow Wing County
The atlas lists 47 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Crow Wing County, including Daggett Brook, Platte Lake, St. Mathias. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Crow Wing County by land and water
The Census records 158.2 square miles of water within Crow Wing County, or 13.7% of its total area. That share is close to Crow Wing County’s 13.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crow Wing County has 56 times the land area of nearby Center township (17.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aitkin County, Cass County, Mille Lacs County, Morrison County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

