THE OWEN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains setting.
Owen township has 17.1 square miles of land in Clark County. Its Census reference point is in Pre-Wisconsinan Drift 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
Owen and Clark County
Owen is associated with Clark 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.
Owen by land and water
The Census records 0.3 square miles of water within Owen, or 1.7% of its total area. It is 0.6 percentage points higher than the 1.1% recorded for Clark County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Owen township has 95.3% of the land area of nearby Bethlehem township (17.9 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

