THE SHEBOYGAN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain setting.
Sheboygan County has 511.5 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Sheboygan County: Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain, Kettle Moraines, Southeastern Wisconsin Savannah and Till 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
Sheboygan County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain50.4%
- Kettle Moraines49.2%
- Southeastern Wisconsin Savannah and Till Plain0.4%
Finding your parcel within Sheboygan County
The atlas lists 32 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Sheboygan County, including Greenbush, Holland, Scott. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Sheboygan County by land and water
The Census records 759.7 square miles of water within Sheboygan County, or 59.8% of its total area. That share is close to Sheboygan County’s 59.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sheboygan County has 96.2 times the land area of nearby Kohler village (5.32 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Calumet County, Fond du Lac County, Manitowoc County, Ozaukee County, Washington County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

