THE MOTTVILLE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Battle Creek/Elkhart Outwash Plain setting.
Mottville township has 19.3 square miles of land in St. Joseph 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
Mottville and St. Joseph County
Mottville is associated with St. Joseph 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.
Mottville by land and water
The Census records 0.61 square miles of water within Mottville, or 3.1% of its total area. It is 0.8 percentage points lower than the 3.9% recorded for St. Joseph County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Mottville township has 13.7 times the land area of nearby White Pigeon village (1.41 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

