THE LEWIS LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains setting.
Lewis township has 42.5 square miles of land in Brown County. Its Census reference point is in Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains, within Eastern Corn Belt Plains.
Rolling glacial till plains are interrupted by end moraines and areas of older, more dissected deposits. The historical landscape had more tree cover than the Central Corn Belt to the west.
Regional context: Eastern Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Classification at the Census reference point
Lewis and Brown County
Lewis is associated with Brown 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.
Lewis by land and water
The Census records 0.6 square miles of water within Lewis, or 1.4% of its total area. It is 0.7 percentage points higher than the 0.7% recorded for Brown County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Lewis township has 169.5 times the land area of nearby Higginsport village (0.25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

