THE WADENA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain setting.
Wadena County has 536.3 square miles of land in Minnesota. The mapped landscape region in Wadena County is Wadena/Todd Drumlins and Osakis Till Plain.
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
Finding your parcel within Wadena County
The atlas lists 22 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wadena County, including Thomastown, Meadow, Wing River. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wadena County by land and water
The Census records 6.95 square miles of water within Wadena County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Wadena County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wadena County has 14.9 times the land area of nearby North Germany township (36 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Becker County, Cass County, Hubbard County, Otter Tail County, Todd County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

