THE MILLE LACS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Minnesota/Wisconsin Upland Till Plain setting.
Mille Lacs County has 572.3 square miles of land in Minnesota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Mille Lacs County: Minnesota/Wisconsin Upland Till Plain, McGrath Till Plain and Drumlins, Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley Outwash.
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
Mille Lacs County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Minnesota/Wisconsin Upland Till Plain65%
- McGrath Till Plain and Drumlins31.3%
- Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley Outwash3.8%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Mille Lacs 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 Mille Lacs County
The atlas lists 26 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Mille Lacs County, including Kathio, Greenbush, Bradbury. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Mille Lacs County by land and water
The Census records 109.3 square miles of water within Mille Lacs County, or 16% of its total area. That share is close to Mille Lacs County’s 16%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mille Lacs County has 18.9 times the land area of nearby Mudgett township (30.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Aitkin County, Benton County, Crow Wing County, Isanti County, Kanabec County, Morrison County, Sherburne County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

