THE COTTAGE GROVE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Willamette River and Tributaries Gallery Forest setting.
Cottage Grove city has 3.88 square miles of land in Lane County. Its Census reference point is in Willamette River and Tributaries Gallery Forest, within Willamette Valley.
The Willamette River's floodplains and terraces sit among low hills and scattered buttes. The valley's prairie, oak and riparian landscape differs markedly from the conifer-covered mountains around it.
Regional context: Willamette Valley ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Cottage Grove and Lane County
Cottage Grove is associated with Lane 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.
Cottage Grove by land and water
The Census records 0.03 square miles of water within Cottage Grove, or 0.7% of its total area. It is 2.9 percentage points lower than the 3.6% recorded for Lane County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cottage Grove city has 2.3 times the land area of nearby Creswell city (1.72 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

