THE KOOCHICHING COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Forested Lake Plains setting.
Koochiching County has 3,104.7 square miles of land in Minnesota. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Koochiching County: Forested Lake Plains, Peatlands, Boundary Lakes and Hills, among others.
Former glacial lake basins form nearly level terrain with extensive wetlands and boreal vegetation. Marsh, swamp and forest patterns are central to this northern Minnesota landscape.
Regional context: Northern Minnesota Wetlands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Koochiching County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Forested Lake Plains47%
- Peatlands43.2%
- Boundary Lakes and Hills8.8%
- Chippewa Plains1%
Northern Lakes and Forests in Koochiching County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Koochiching County
The atlas lists 7 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Koochiching County, including International Falls, Big Falls, Mizpah. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Koochiching County by land and water
The Census records 51.3 square miles of water within Koochiching County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Koochiching County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Koochiching County has 513.8 times the land area of nearby Big Falls city (6.04 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Beltrami County, Itasca County, Lake of the Woods County, St. Louis County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

