THE IOWA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
Iowa County has 762.7 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Iowa County: Blufflands and Coulees, Savanna Section.
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
Iowa County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Blufflands and Coulees53.9%
- Savanna Section46.1%
Finding your parcel within Iowa County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Iowa County, including Dodgeville, Arena, Highland. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Iowa County by land and water
The Census records 5.36 square miles of water within Iowa County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Iowa County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Iowa County has 8.5 times the land area of nearby Dodgeville town (89.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Dane County, Grant County, Green County, Lafayette County, Richland County, Sauk County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

