THE COOPER CHARTER LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Battle Creek/Elkhart Outwash Plain setting.
Cooper charter township has 36.3 square miles of land in Kalamazoo County. Its Census reference point is in Battle Creek/Elkhart Outwash 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
Cooper charter and Kalamazoo County
Cooper charter is associated with Kalamazoo 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.
Cooper charter by land and water
The Census records 0.31 square miles of water within Cooper charter, or 0.8% of its total area. It is 2.3 percentage points lower than the 3.2% recorded for Kalamazoo County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cooper charter township has 39.4 times the land area of nearby Parchment city (0.92 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

