THE CRYSTAL LAKE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Missouri Coteau setting.
Crystal Lake township has 35.4 square miles of land in Wells County. Its Census reference point is in Missouri Coteau, within Northwestern Glaciated Plains.
Glaciated plains bridge the wetter eastern prairie and the drier, more broken Great Plains. Numerous prairie potholes and other seasonal or persistent wetlands are characteristic regional landforms.
Regional context: Northwestern Glaciated Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Crystal Lake and Wells County
Crystal Lake is associated with Wells 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.
Crystal Lake by land and water
The Census records 0.43 square miles of water within Crystal Lake, or 1.2% of its total area. It is 0.3 percentage points lower than the 1.5% recorded for Wells County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Crystal Lake township has 1.1 times the land area of nearby Bull Moose township (33.6 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

