THE RED LAKE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Beach Ridges and Sand Deltas setting.
Red Lake County has 432.4 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Red Lake County: Beach Ridges and Sand Deltas, Lake Agassiz Plains.
The former bed of glacial Lake Agassiz forms an exceptionally flat plain in the Red River valley. Thick lake sediments overlie older glacial deposits across this historic prairie landscape.
Regional context: Lake Agassiz Plain ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Red Lake County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Beach Ridges and Sand Deltas51.4%
- Lake Agassiz Plains48.6%
Finding your parcel within Red Lake County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Red Lake County, including Garnes, Equality, Emardville. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Red Lake County by land and water
The Census records 0.09 square miles of water within Red Lake County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Red Lake County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Red Lake County has 9.4 times the land area of nearby Emardville township (45.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Pennington County, Polk County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

