THE MANITOWOC COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain setting.
Manitowoc County has 589.3 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Manitowoc County: Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain, Kettle Moraines.
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
Manitowoc County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain88.6%
- Kettle Moraines11.4%
Finding your parcel within Manitowoc County
The atlas lists 32 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Manitowoc County, including Kossuth, Meeme, Franklin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Manitowoc County by land and water
The Census records 904.8 square miles of water within Manitowoc County, or 60.6% of its total area. That share is close to Manitowoc County’s 60.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Manitowoc County has 18.9 times the land area of nearby Two Rivers town (31.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Calumet County, Kewaunee County, Sheboygan County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

