THE SILVER CREEK LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains setting.
Silver Creek township has 16.7 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
Silver Creek and Clark County
Silver Creek 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.
Silver Creek by land and water
The Census records 0.25 square miles of water within Silver Creek, or 1.5% of its total area. It is 0.4 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, Silver Creek township has 2.2 times the land area of nearby Sellersburg town (7.41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

