THE BUFFALO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
Buffalo County has 675.8 square miles of land in Wisconsin. The mapped landscape region in Buffalo County is Blufflands and Coulees.
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
Finding your parcel within Buffalo County
The atlas lists 25 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Buffalo County, including Nelson, Montana, Glencoe. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Buffalo County by land and water
The Census records 33.8 square miles of water within Buffalo County, or 4.8% of its total area. That share is close to Buffalo County’s 4.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Buffalo County has 18.4 times the land area of nearby Lincoln town (36.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Eau Claire County, Pepin County, Trempealeau County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

