THE WAUSHARA COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Sand Ridges setting.
Waushara County has 626.2 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Waushara County: Central Sand Ridges, Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain, Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain, 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
Waushara County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Sand Ridges62.9%
- Lake Michigan Lacustrine Clay Plain16.2%
- Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain14.3%
- Green Bay Till and Lacustrine Plain6.1%
- Southeastern Wisconsin Savannah and Till Plain0.5%
Southeastern Wisconsin Till Plains in Waushara 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 Waushara County
The atlas lists 29 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Waushara County, including Leon, Saxeville, Bloomfield. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Waushara County by land and water
The Census records 11.2 square miles of water within Waushara County, or 1.8% of its total area. That share is close to Waushara County’s 1.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Waushara County has 18.6 times the land area of nearby Wautoma town (33.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Green Lake County, Marquette County, Portage County, Waupaca County, Winnebago County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

