THE LOCKE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lansing Loamy Plain setting.
Locke township has 35.8 square miles of land in Ingham County. Its Census reference point is in Lansing Loamy 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
Locke and Ingham County
Locke is associated with Ingham 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.
Locke by land and water
The Census records 0.23 square miles of water within Locke, or 0.6% of its total area. It is 0.2 percentage points lower than the 0.8% recorded for Ingham County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Locke township has 1.1 times the land area of nearby Perry township (31.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

