THE GRANT LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Clayey High Lime Till Plains setting.
Grant township has 17.4 square miles of land in DeKalb County. Its Census reference point is in Clayey 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
Grant and DeKalb County
Grant is associated with DeKalb 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.
Grant by land and water
The Census records 0.02 square miles of water within Grant, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 0.1 percentage points lower than the 0.3% recorded for DeKalb County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Grant township has 8.3 times the land area of nearby Waterloo town (2.11 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

