THE DUCK CREEK LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Duck Creek township has 24 square miles of land in Madison 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
Duck Creek and Madison County
Duck Creek is associated with Madison County in the Census boundary data. Start with the parcel’s tax bill to match the property to that jurisdiction, then confirm which government handles its land use.
Duck Creek by land and water
The Census records 0 square miles of water within Duck Creek, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 0.2% recorded for Madison County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Duck Creek township has 6 times the land area of nearby Elwood city (4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

