page_title: Wright County, Minnesota
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Wright County, Minnesota / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Map shows native vegetation of Lake Maria State Park in Wright County, Minnesota. The entire park is a savanna, part of a prairie ecosystem.
context_page_description: Wright County is a county in the East Central part of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of the 2010 United States Census, the population was 124,700. Its county seat is Buffalo. The county was founded in 1855. Wright County is part of the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. Wright County is the tenth-largest county in Minnesota and the second-fastest growing.
context_section_description: According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has an area of 714 square miles (1,850 km²), of which 661 square miles (1,710 km²) is land and 53 square miles (140 km²) (7.4%) is water. The terrain is undulating and contains numerous small lakes. The county is bounded on the northeast by the Mississippi River. Wright is one of 17 Minnesota savanna region counties with more savanna soils than either prairie or forest soils, and one of only two Minnesota counties where savanna soils make up more than 75% of the county area (the other is Hennepin County).
caption: Soils of Lake Maria State Park
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