THE OCONTO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain setting.
Oconto County has 997.5 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Oconto County: Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain, Brule and Paint River Drumlins, Wisconsin/Michigan Pine Barrens, among others.
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
Oconto County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain55.7%
- Brule and Paint River Drumlins24.1%
- Wisconsin/Michigan Pine Barrens15.5%
- Menominee-Drummond Lakeshore4.8%
Northern Lakes and Forests in Oconto County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Oconto County
The atlas lists 34 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Oconto County, including Mountain, Lakewood, Riverview. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Oconto County by land and water
The Census records 151.4 square miles of water within Oconto County, or 13.2% of its total area. That share is close to Oconto County’s 13.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Oconto County has 28.4 times the land area of nearby Spruce town (35.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Door County, Forest County, Langlade County, Marinette County, Menominee County, Shawano County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

