THE HUBBARD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Itasca and St. Louis Moraines setting.
Hubbard County has 926 square miles of land in Minnesota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Hubbard County: Itasca and St. Louis Moraines, Chippewa Plains, Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain.
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
Hubbard County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Itasca and St. Louis Moraines46.7%
- Chippewa Plains36.6%
- Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain16.6%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Hubbard 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 Hubbard County
The atlas lists 34 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Hubbard County, including Badoura, Fern, Hendrickson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Hubbard County by land and water
The Census records 73.5 square miles of water within Hubbard County, or 7.4% of its total area. That share is close to Hubbard County’s 7.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Hubbard County has 27.5 times the land area of nearby Clay township (33.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Becker County, Beltrami County, Cass County, Clearwater County, Wadena County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

