THE LAFAYETTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Savanna Section setting.
Lafayette County has 633.6 square miles of land in Wisconsin. The mapped landscape region in Lafayette County is 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
Finding your parcel within Lafayette County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Lafayette County, including Gratiot, Wiota, Willow Springs. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Lafayette County by land and water
The Census records 0.98 square miles of water within Lafayette County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Lafayette County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lafayette County has 13.8 times the land area of nearby Darlington town (45.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Grant County, Green County, Iowa County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

