How this list was compiled: Items made on 2026-09-26; names, ids and accepted spellings are Natural Earth's. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf; public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
The drawing: Drawn for this site from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_county_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_county_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19. Surrounding land from U.S. Census Bureau 2023 cartographic boundary file cb_2023_us_state_5m (scale 1:5,000,000), https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2023/shp/cb_2023_us_state_5m.zip, downloaded 2026-09-19 and from Natural Earth 5.1.2, ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes (scale 1:10,000,000), https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/v5.1.2/geojson/ne_10m_admin_0_countries_lakes.geojson, downloaded 2026-09-19. Albers equal-area conic projection, central meridian 90°W, standard parallels 43.3°N and 46.3°N. Outlines simplified; small islands are left out. Licence: public domain (work of the United States government, 17 U.S.C. 105): https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/maps-data/data/tiger/tgrshp2023/TGRSHP2023_TechDoc_Ch1.pdf; public domain (Natural Earth terms of use: https://www.naturalearthdata.com/about/terms-of-use/)
How it works
This blank map of Wisconsin shows all 72 counties of Wisconsin, from Adams to Wood, with Madison, the capital, in Dane County; with Borders off it prints the plain outline.
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Blank, numbered or named
Blank prints the 72 shapes with nothing written; Numbered puts 1 on Adams and 72 on Wood, in alphabetical order; Named prints every name, and Print the answer key gives the list.
Wisconsin outline map with every county
Marathon County, around Wausau, is the largest county. Door County is the peninsula between Green Bay and Lake Michigan. Its neighbors, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan, are drawn around it without numbers.
Find the two Great Lakes first, Superior in the north and Michigan in the east, then work inland.
Questions and answers
How many counties does Wisconsin have?
Seventy-two in the Census Bureau count, from Adams County to Wood County in alphabetical order.
What county is Madison in?
Madison stands in Dane County, which is number 13 on the numbered sheet. Have students find it first and write Madison beside it.
Which is the largest county in Wisconsin?
Marathon County, around Wausau in the middle of the state. Milwaukee County, on Lake Michigan, has the most people.
Which county of Wisconsin has the most people?
Milwaukee County, around Milwaukee, has more people than any other county in Wisconsin, while the capital, Madison, is in Dane County.