THE CLAYBANKS LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Michigan Lake Plain setting.
Claybanks township has 23.8 square miles of land in Oceana County. Its Census reference point is in Michigan Lake Plain, within Southern Michigan/Northern Indiana Drift 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 ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Claybanks and Oceana County
Claybanks is associated with Oceana 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.
Claybanks by land and water
The Census records 0.18 square miles of water within Claybanks, or 0.8% of its total area. It is 58 percentage points lower than the 58.8% recorded for Oceana County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Claybanks township has 9.7 times the land area of nearby Rothbury village (2.46 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

