THE WALWORTH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Kettle Moraines setting.
Walworth County has 555.4 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Walworth County: Kettle Moraines, Rock River Drift Plain, 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
Walworth County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Kettle Moraines75%
- Rock River Drift Plain19.9%
- Southeastern Wisconsin Savannah and Till Plain5.1%
Finding your parcel within Walworth County
The atlas lists 41 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Walworth County, including Spring Prairie, Richmond, Troy. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Walworth County by land and water
The Census records 21.2 square miles of water within Walworth County, or 3.7% of its total area. That share is close to Walworth County’s 3.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Walworth County has 68.1 times the land area of nearby Elkhorn city (8.16 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Jefferson County, Kenosha County, Racine County, Rock County, Waukesha County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

