THE CROMWELL LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Lake Agassiz Plains setting.
Cromwell township has 33.2 square miles of land in Clay County. Its Census reference point is in Lake Agassiz Plains, within Lake Agassiz Plain.
The former bed of glacial Lake Agassiz forms an exceptionally flat plain in the Red River valley. Thick lake sediments overlie older glacial deposits across this historic prairie landscape.
Regional context: Lake Agassiz Plain ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Cromwell and Clay County
Cromwell is associated with Clay 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.
Cromwell by land and water
The Census records 0.44 square miles of water within Cromwell, or 1.3% of its total area. It is 0.6 percentage points higher than the 0.7% recorded for Clay County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Cromwell township has 12.7 times the land area of nearby Hawley city (2.62 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

