THE TOBACCO LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Saginaw Lake Plain setting.
Tobacco township has 33.7 square miles of land in Gladwin County. Its Census reference point is in Saginaw Lake Plain, within Huron/Erie Lake Plains.
A broad former lake plain is interrupted by old beach ridges, dunes and glacial moraines. The landscape is mostly low-relief, with important differences between sandy rises and lower ground.
Regional context: Huron/Erie Lake Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Tobacco and Gladwin County
Tobacco is associated with Gladwin 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.
Tobacco by land and water
The Census records 1.49 square miles of water within Tobacco, or 4.2% of its total area. It is 1.5 percentage points higher than the 2.7% recorded for Gladwin County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Tobacco township has 31.9 times the land area of nearby Beaverton city (1.06 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

