THE WABASHA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
Wabasha County has 523 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Wabasha County: Blufflands and Coulees, Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland.
Deeply cut valleys divide a bedrock plateau with windblown soil on many uplands. Glaciers had less influence here than in neighboring regions, leaving a distinctly hilly landscape.
Regional context: Driftless Area ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Wabasha County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Blufflands and Coulees68.5%
- Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland31.5%
Finding your parcel within Wabasha County
The atlas lists 28 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wabasha County, including Mount Pleasant, Highland, West Albany. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wabasha County by land and water
The Census records 26.6 square miles of water within Wabasha County, or 4.8% of its total area. That share is close to Wabasha County’s 4.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wabasha County has 14.8 times the land area of nearby Oakwood township (35.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Goodhue County, Olmsted County, Winona County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

