THE TODD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain setting.
Todd County has 945.1 square miles of land in Minnesota. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Todd County: Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain, McGrath Till Plain and Drumlins, Itasca and St. Louis Moraines.
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
Todd County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain73.2%
- McGrath Till Plain and Drumlins19.5%
- Itasca and St. Louis Moraines7.3%
Northern Lakes and Forests in Todd 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 Todd County
The atlas lists 40 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Todd County, including Germania, Iona, Bartlett. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Todd County by land and water
The Census records 34.4 square miles of water within Todd County, or 3.5% of its total area. That share is close to Todd County’s 3.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Todd County has 867.9 times the land area of nearby Browerville city (1.09 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Cass County, Douglas County, Morrison County, Otter Tail County, Stearns County, Wadena County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

