THE RICHLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
Richland County has 586.2 square miles of land in Wisconsin. The mapped landscape region in Richland County is Blufflands and Coulees.
Deeply cut valleys divide a bedrock plateau with windblown soil on many uplands. Glaciers had less influence here than in neighboring regions, leaving a distinctly hilly landscape.
Regional context: Driftless Area ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Richland County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Richland County, including Richwood, Buena Vista, Rockbridge. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Richland County by land and water
The Census records 3.15 square miles of water within Richland County, or 0.5% of its total area. That share is close to Richland County’s 0.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Richland County has 122.9 times the land area of nearby Richland Center city (4.77 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crawford County, Grant County, Iowa County, Sauk County, Vernon County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

