THE LA CROSSE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
La Crosse County has 451.8 square miles of land in Wisconsin. The mapped landscape region in La Crosse 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 La Crosse County
The atlas lists 22 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with La Crosse County, including Farmington, Hamilton, Burns. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
La Crosse County by land and water
The Census records 28.2 square miles of water within La Crosse County, or 5.9% of its total area. That share is close to La Crosse County’s 5.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, La Crosse County has 134.9 times the land area of nearby West Salem village (3.35 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Jackson County, Monroe County, Trempealeau County, Vernon County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.