THE KEWAUNEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain setting.
Kewaunee County has 342.5 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Kewaunee County: Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain, Door Peninsula.
Glacial till plains support a transition between hardwood forest, oak savanna and prairie landscapes. Rolling farmland and woodland reflect this meeting of ecological regions in southeastern Wisconsin.
Regional context: Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Kewaunee County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain83.6%
- Door Peninsula16.4%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Kewaunee 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 Kewaunee County
The atlas lists 15 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Kewaunee County, including West Kewaunee, Montpelier, Lincoln. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Kewaunee County by land and water
The Census records 741.8 square miles of water within Kewaunee County, or 68.4% of its total area. That share is close to Kewaunee County’s 68.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Kewaunee County has 11.1 times the land area of nearby Ahnapee town (30.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Door County, Manitowoc County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

