THE LANCASTER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Clayey High Lime Till Plains setting.
Lancaster township has 35.6 square miles of land in Huntington 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
Lancaster and Huntington County
Lancaster is associated with Huntington 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.
Lancaster by land and water
The Census records 0.27 square miles of water within Lancaster, or 0.7% of its total area. It is 0.6 percentage points lower than the 1.3% recorded for Huntington County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lancaster township has 304.4 times the land area of nearby Mount Etna town (0.12 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

