THE CLIFTON LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Drift Plains setting.
Clifton township has 35.1 square miles of land in Cass County. Its Census reference point is in Drift Plains, within Northern Glaciated Plains.
Flat to gently rolling glacial terrain supports a prairie transition between taller and shorter grasses. Many temporary and seasonal wetlands occupy depressions left in the glacial landscape.
Regional context: Northern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Clifton and Cass County
Clifton is associated with Cass 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.
Clifton by land and water
The Census records 0.22 square miles of water within Clifton, or 0.6% of its total area. It is 0.5 percentage points higher than the 0.2% recorded for Cass County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Clifton township has 36.1 times the land area of nearby Alice city (0.97 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

