THE OZAUKEE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Kettle Moraines setting.
Ozaukee County has 233 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Ozaukee County: Kettle Moraines, Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain.
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
Ozaukee County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Kettle Moraines52.5%
- Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain47.5%
Finding your parcel within Ozaukee County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Ozaukee County, including Mequon, Belgium, Fredonia. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Ozaukee County by land and water
The Census records 883.2 square miles of water within Ozaukee County, or 79.1% of its total area. That share is close to Ozaukee County’s 79.1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ozaukee County has 6.5 times the land area of nearby Belgium town (35.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Milwaukee County, Sheboygan County, Washington County, Waukesha County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

