THE GRANT COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Clayey High Lime Till Plains setting.
Grant County has 414.1 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Grant County: Clayey High Lime Till Plains, Loamy High Lime Till 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 ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Grant County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Clayey High Lime Till Plains98.3%
- Loamy High Lime Till Plains1.7%
Finding your parcel within Grant County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Grant County, including Liberty, Jefferson, Franklin. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Grant County by land and water
The Census records 0.81 square miles of water within Grant County, or 0.2% of its total area. That share is close to Grant County’s 0.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Grant County has 26.4 times the land area of nearby Marion city (15.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Blackford County, Delaware County, Howard County, Huntington County, Madison County, Miami County, Tipton County, Wabash County and other counties within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

