Bayfield County parcel map and property owners

WI 2026 puts all 35,897 parcels in Bayfield County on your phone: owner names, site addresses, assessed values and acreage from the county’s 2025 tax roll. The county download is about 9 MB, and once it’s on your phone you can search it and tap any parcel with no signal.

The parcels cover 966,954 mapped acres across 29 towns, villages and cities, and 6 school districts. The most parcels are in the Town of Barnes. The data is the State Cartographer’s Office V12 statewide parcel map, loaded from the county on March 12, 2026.

• Agricultural
• Productive forest
• Undeveloped / ag forest
• Residential
• Commercial / manufacturing
• Government-owned / county forest
• Other / unclassified

What the Bayfield County records include

Counties fill in the statewide schema differently. This is how complete Bayfield County’s 2025 records are:

Only 41% of parcels have a street address, which is normal for rural land: fields and woods often have no house number. Search by owner name or parcel ID to find those.

How the land is classed

By mapped area, Bayfield County is government-owned / county forest 52%, residential 15%, productive forest 11%, agricultural 8%. The median estimated fair market value of a residential parcel is $168,300, across 11,995 residential parcels with a value.

In WI 2026, open the legend and color the map by Class of Property to see the same picture, or by Estimated Fair Market Value to see where values rise and fall.

Deer season: public land and Managed Forest Law

The tax roll marks parcels that are government-owned or enrolled in Wisconsin’s forest tax programs. In Bayfield County:

• Federal-owned: 291,257 acres in 2,466 parcels
• State-owned: 27,137 acres in 1,073 parcels
• County-owned: 8,347 acres in 510 parcels
• County forest crop land: 171,652 acres in 1,372 parcels
• Managed Forest Law, open to public hunting, fishing, hiking, sightseeing and cross-country skiing: 35,773 acres in 960 parcels
• Managed Forest Law, closed (no public access without permission): 34,148 acres

In WI 2026, color the map by Auxiliary Class of Property to see these parcels, and tap one for the owner and acreage. The acreages are whole-parcel areas from the tax roll: a parcel that is only partly enrolled counts in full, and the tax roll doesn’t show posted areas or access routes. Before you hunt, check the DNR’s map of private forest land open to the public and the signs on the ground.

Towns, villages and cities in Bayfield County

Every parcel carries its municipality, so you can search a town name in WI 2026 or filter the attribute table to one place. Parcel counts in the 2025 data:

• Town of Barnes 3,515
• Town of Cable 2,942
• Town of Bayfield 2,130
• Town of Iron River 2,009
• Town of Grand View 1,830
• Town of Drummond 1,663
• Town of Namakagon 1,489
• City of Washburn 1,349
• Town of Delta 1,321
• Town of Clover 1,299
• Town of Bell 1,198
• Town of Orienta 1,190
• Town of Russell 1,180
• Town of Port Wing 1,137
• Town of Eileen 957
• Town of Hughes 956
• Town of Bayview 927
• City of Bayfield 909
• Town of Kelly 903
• Town of Oulu 871
• Town of Barksdale 857
• Town of Lincoln 837
• Town of Washburn 818
• Town of Mason 758
• Town of Keystone 745
• Town of Tripp 568
• Town of Pilsen 448
• Village of Mason 235
• City of Ashland 2

Working near the county line?

Bayfield County borders Ashland County, Douglas County, Sawyer County and Washburn County. Download the neighboring counties too, and WI 2026 searches across all of them at once.

Where the data comes from

Parcel data is the Wisconsin Statewide Parcel Map Database (V12), a public-domain product of the Wisconsin Land Information Program and the State Cartographer’s Office, UW–Madison, built from Bayfield County’s 2025 tax roll. It is a snapshot, not a live feed: for a sale, a survey or a tax question, check with Bayfield County directly.