THE WRIGHT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Big Woods setting.
Wright County has 661.2 square miles of land in Minnesota. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Wright County: Big Woods, Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley Outwash.
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
Wright County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Big Woods91.6%
- Anoka Sand Plain and Mississippi Valley Outwash8.3%
Finding your parcel within Wright County
The atlas lists 37 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wright County, including Franklin, Monticello, Silver Creek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wright County by land and water
The Census records 53.2 square miles of water within Wright County, or 7.5% of its total area. That share is close to Wright County’s 7.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wright County has 44.8 times the land area of nearby Chatham township (14.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carver County, Hennepin County, McLeod County, Meeker County, Sherburne County, Stearns County within Minnesota. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.