THE WAUPACA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain setting.
Waupaca County has 747.7 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Waupaca County: Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain, Central Sand Ridges, Upper Wolf River Stagnation Moraine, among others.
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
Waupaca County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain54.2%
- Central Sand Ridges33.7%
- Upper Wolf River Stagnation Moraine10.6%
- Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain1.5%
Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains in Waupaca County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Waupaca County
The atlas lists 37 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Waupaca County, including Harrison, Bear Creek, Matteson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Waupaca County by land and water
The Census records 17.5 square miles of water within Waupaca County, or 2.3% of its total area. That share is close to Waupaca County’s 2.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Waupaca County has 459 times the land area of nearby Manawa city (1.63 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Marathon County, Outagamie County, Portage County, Shawano County, Waushara County, Winnebago County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

