THE MARQUETTE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Sand Ridges setting.
Marquette County has 455.7 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Marquette County: Central Sand Ridges, Southeastern Wisconsin Savannah and Till Plain, Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain.
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.
Regional context: North Central Hardwood Forests ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Marquette County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Sand Ridges92.4%
- Southeastern Wisconsin Savannah and Till Plain7.3%
- Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain0.3%
Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains in Marquette County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Marquette County
The atlas lists 22 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Marquette County, including Buffalo, Packwaukee, Crystal Lake. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Marquette County by land and water
The Census records 8.76 square miles of water within Marquette County, or 1.9% of its total area. That share is close to Marquette County’s 1.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Marquette County has 14.9 times the land area of nearby Harris town (30.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Columbia County, Green Lake County, Waushara County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

