THE RICE LAKE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Collapsed Glacial Outwash setting.
Rice Lake township has 34.4 square miles of land in Ward County. Its Census reference point is in Collapsed Glacial Outwash, within Northwestern Glaciated Plains.
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Rice Lake and Ward County
Rice Lake is associated with Ward County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Rice Lake by land and water
The Census records 1.84 square miles of water within Rice Lake, or 5.1% of its total area. It is 3 percentage points higher than the 2.1% recorded for Ward County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Rice Lake township has 95.9% of the land area of nearby Hilton township (35.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

