THE JACKSON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
Jackson County has 987.9 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Jackson County: Blufflands and Coulees, Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain, Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain.
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
Jackson County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Blufflands and Coulees51%
- Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain46.5%
- Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain2.5%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Jackson County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Jackson County
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Jackson County, including City Point, Millston, Knapp. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Jackson County by land and water
The Census records 12.6 square miles of water within Jackson County, or 1.3% of its total area. That share is close to Jackson County’s 1.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Jackson County has 4,240 times the land area of nearby Sand Pillow CDP (0.23 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clark County, Eau Claire County, Juneau County, La Crosse County, Monroe County, Trempealeau County, Wood County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

