THE GEORGETOWN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin setting.
Georgetown township has 36.8 square miles of land in Clay County. Its Census reference point is in Glacial Lake Agassiz Basin, 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
Georgetown and Clay County
Georgetown 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.
Georgetown by land and water
The Census records <0.01 square miles of water within Georgetown, or 0% of its total area. It is 0.7 percentage points lower 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, Georgetown township has 36.1 times the land area of nearby Georgetown city (1.02 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

