THE FILLMORE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
Fillmore County has 861.3 square miles of land in Minnesota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Fillmore County: Blufflands and Coulees, Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland, Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains.
Deeply cut valleys divide a bedrock plateau with windblown soil on many uplands. Glaciers had less influence here than in neighboring regions, leaving a distinctly hilly landscape.
Regional context: Driftless Area ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Fillmore County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Blufflands and Coulees52.3%
- Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland40.9%
- Eastern Iowa and Minnesota Drift Plains6.8%
Western Corn Belt Plains in Fillmore County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Fillmore County
The atlas lists 37 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Fillmore County, including Carrolton, Sumner, Beaver. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Fillmore County by land and water
The Census records 0.79 square miles of water within Fillmore County, or 0.1% of its total area. That share is close to Fillmore County’s 0.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Fillmore County has 349.4 times the land area of nearby Preston city (2.47 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Houston County, Mower County, Olmsted County, Winona County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

