THE NEW CASTLE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Whitewater Interlobate Area setting.
New Castle city has 7.33 square miles of land in Henry County. Its Census reference point is in Whitewater Interlobate Area, 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
New Castle and Henry County
New Castle is associated with Henry 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.
New Castle by land and water
The Census records 0.02 square miles of water within New Castle, or 0.3% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points lower than the 0.7% recorded for Henry County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, New Castle city has 20.1% of the land area of nearby Henry township (36.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

