THE WILKIN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin setting.
Wilkin County has 751 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Wilkin County: Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin, Alexandria Moraines and Detroit Lakes Outwash Plain.
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
Wilkin County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin99.6%
- Alexandria Moraines and Detroit Lakes Outwash Plain0.4%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Wilkin County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Wilkin County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wilkin County, including Brandrup, Campbell, Mitchell. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wilkin County by land and water
The Census records 0.19 square miles of water within Wilkin County, or 0% of its total area. That share is close to Wilkin County’s 0%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wilkin County has 20.8 times the land area of nearby Nilsen township (36.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Grant County, Otter Tail County, Traverse County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

