THE CUMBERLAND LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Cumberland town has 3.18 square miles of land in Hancock County, Marion County. Its Census reference point is in Loamy High Lime Till Plains, within Eastern Corn Belt Plains.
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
One place name. 2 county geographies.
Cumberland intersects 2 county geographies: Hancock County, Marion County. A Cumberland mailing address alone cannot choose the right record office; use the county and parcel identifier on the tax bill or deed.
Cumberland by land and water
The Census records 0.02 square miles of water within Cumberland, or 0.5% of its total area. It is 1.2 percentage points lower than the 1.6% recorded for Indiana. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cumberland town has 6.6% of the land area of nearby Warren township (48.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

