THE PRICE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Chippewa Lobe Rocky Ground Moraines setting.
Price County has 1,254.1 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Price County: Chippewa Lobe Rocky Ground Moraines, Northern Wisconsin Highlands Lakes Country, Perkinstown End Moraines.
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
Price County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Chippewa Lobe Rocky Ground Moraines91.7%
- Northern Wisconsin Highlands Lakes Country4.7%
- Perkinstown End Moraines3.6%
Finding your parcel within Price County
The atlas lists 23 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Price County, including Fifield, Worcester, Emery. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Price County by land and water
The Census records 24 square miles of water within Price County, or 1.9% of its total area. That share is close to Price County’s 1.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Price County has 471.6 times the land area of nearby Phillips city (2.66 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ashland County, Iron County, Lincoln County, Oneida County, Rusk County, Sawyer County, Taylor County, Vilas County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

