THE SHAWANO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain setting.
Shawano County has 893.2 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Shawano County: Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain, Upper Wolf River Stagnation Moraine.
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
Shawano County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain56.7%
- Upper Wolf River Stagnation Moraine43.3%
Finding your parcel within Shawano County
The atlas lists 50 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Shawano County, including Belle Plaine, Angelica, Seneca. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Shawano County by land and water
The Census records 16.2 square miles of water within Shawano County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Shawano County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Shawano County has 25.4 times the land area of nearby Herman town (35.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Brown County, Langlade County, Marathon County, Menominee County, Oconto County, Outagamie County, Portage County, Waupaca County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

