THE WINONA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
Winona County has 626.2 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Winona 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
Winona County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Blufflands and Coulees78.8%
- Rochester/Paleozoic Plateau Upland21.2%
Finding your parcel within Winona County
The atlas lists 35 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Winona County, including Fremont, Saratoga, Pleasant Hill. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Winona County by land and water
The Census records 15.5 square miles of water within Winona County, or 2.4% of its total area. That share is close to Winona County’s 2.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Winona County has 17.6 times the land area of nearby Warren township (35.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fillmore County, Houston County, Olmsted County, Wabasha County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

