THE WOOD COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain setting.
Wood County has 793 square miles of land in Wisconsin. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Wood County: Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain, Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain.
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
Wood County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Central Wisconsin Undulating Till Plain59.9%
- Glacial Lake Wisconsin Sand Plain40.1%
Finding your parcel within Wood County
The atlas lists 37 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Wood County, including Remington, Saratoga, Port Edwards. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Wood County by land and water
The Census records 16.2 square miles of water within Wood County, or 2% of its total area. That share is close to Wood County’s 2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Wood County has 23.4 times the land area of nearby Hansen town (33.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Adams County, Clark County, Jackson County, Juneau County, Marathon County, Portage County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

