THE RAMSEY COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
St. Croix Stagnation Moraines setting.
Ramsey County has 152.3 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Ramsey County: St. Croix Stagnation Moraines, Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley Outwash.
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.
Regional context: North Central Hardwood Forests ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Ramsey County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- St. Croix Stagnation Moraines95.2%
- Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley Outwash4.8%
Finding your parcel within Ramsey County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ramsey County, including St. Paul, Blaine, Maplewood. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ramsey County by land and water
The Census records 17.8 square miles of water within Ramsey County, or 10.4% of its total area. That share is close to Ramsey County’s 10.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ramsey County has 39.1 times the land area of nearby Little Canada city (3.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Anoka County, Dakota County, Hennepin County, Washington County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

