THE CASS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Middle Tippecanoe Plains setting.
Cass County has 412.1 square miles of land in Indiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Cass County: Middle Tippecanoe Plains, Loamy High Lime Till Plains, Clayey High Lime Till Plains.
Lakes, marshes and complex glacial deposits create a varied landscape around southern Michigan and northern Indiana. Moraines, beach ridges, dunes, kettles and meltwater channels occur across the region.
Regional context: Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Cass County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Middle Tippecanoe Plains47.6%
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains47.1%
- Clayey High Lime Till Plains5.3%
Eastern Corn Belt Plains in Cass County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Cass County
The atlas lists 26 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Cass County, including Tipton, Deer Creek, Jefferson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Cass County by land and water
The Census records 2.7 square miles of water within Cass County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Cass County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cass County has 39.3 times the land area of nearby Logansport city (10.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Carroll County, Fulton County, Howard County, Miami County, Pulaski County, White County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

