THE MISSION LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loess and Glacial Drift Hills setting.
Mission township has 84.6 square miles of land in Brown County. Its Census reference point is in Loess and Glacial Drift Hills, within Western Corn Belt Plains.
Glacial till plains and windblown loess hills make up the Western Corn Belt landscape. Near-level and rolling terrain are interspersed with steeper river valleys and hills.
Regional context: Western Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Mission and Brown County
Mission is associated with Brown 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.
Mission by land and water
The Census records 0.47 square miles of water within Mission, or 0.6% of its total area. It is 0.3 percentage points higher than the 0.2% recorded for Brown County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mission township has 515.8 times the land area of nearby Willis city (0.16 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

