THE SAWYER COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Chequamegon Moraines and Outwash Plain setting.
Sawyer County has 1,257.6 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Sawyer County: Chequamegon Moraines and Outwash Plain, Chippewa Lobe Rocky Ground Moraines, Blue Hills.
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
Sawyer County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Chequamegon Moraines and Outwash Plain46.4%
- Chippewa Lobe Rocky Ground Moraines46.3%
- Blue Hills7.4%
Finding your parcel within Sawyer County
The atlas lists 26 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sawyer County, including Winter, Draper, Round Lake. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sawyer County by land and water
The Census records 92.6 square miles of water within Sawyer County, or 6.9% of its total area. That share is close to Sawyer County’s 6.9%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sawyer County has 24.7 times the land area of nearby Ojibwa town (51 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Ashland County, Barron County, Bayfield County, Douglas County, Price County, Rusk County, Washburn County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

