THE MARINETTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Wisconsin/Michigan Pine Barrens setting.
Marinette County has 1,399.5 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Marinette County: Wisconsin/Michigan Pine Barrens, Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain, Menominee Drumlins and Ground Moraine, among others.
Glacial hills, till plains, sandy outwash and old lake basins create a varied northern landscape. Conifer and hardwood forests surround many lakes across these glacially shaped uplands.
Regional context: Northern Lakes and Forests ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Marinette County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Wisconsin/Michigan Pine Barrens57.7%
- Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain12%
- Menominee Drumlins and Ground Moraine11.9%
- Brule and Paint River Drumlins11.7%
- Menominee-Drummond Lakeshore6.7%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Marinette 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 Marinette County
The atlas lists 29 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Marinette County, including Stephenson, Athelstane, Goodman. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Marinette County by land and water
The Census records 150.5 square miles of water within Marinette County, or 9.7% of its total area. That share is close to Marinette County’s 9.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Marinette County has 1,017.1 times the land area of nearby Wausaukee village (1.38 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Door County, Florence County, Forest County, Oconto County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

