THE TAYLOR COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Chippewa Lobe Rocky Ground Moraines setting.
Taylor County has 975.1 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Taylor County: Chippewa Lobe Rocky Ground Moraines, Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain, 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
Taylor County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Chippewa Lobe Rocky Ground Moraines39.4%
- Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain31.6%
- Perkinstown End Moraines29%
North Central Hardwood Forests in Taylor County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Taylor County
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Taylor County, including Westboro, Rib Lake, Grover. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Taylor County by land and water
The Census records 9.51 square miles of water within Taylor County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Taylor County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Taylor County has 27.5 times the land area of nearby Molitor town (35.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Chippewa County, Clark County, Lincoln County, Marathon County, Price County, Rusk County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

