THE ANN ARBOR CHARTER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Clayey High Lime Till Plains setting.
Ann Arbor charter township has 16.3 square miles of land in Washtenaw County. Its Census reference point is in Clayey High Lime Till 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
Ann Arbor charter and Washtenaw County
Ann Arbor charter is associated with Washtenaw 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.
Ann Arbor charter by land and water
The Census records 0.14 square miles of water within Ann Arbor charter, or 0.9% of its total area. It is 1.4 percentage points lower than the 2.3% recorded for Washtenaw County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Ann Arbor charter township has 20 times the land area of nearby Barton Hills village (0.81 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

