THE MADISON LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Darby Plains setting.
Madison township has 35.4 square miles of land in Fayette County. Its Census reference point is in Darby 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
Madison and Fayette County
Madison is associated with Fayette 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.
Madison by land and water
The Census records 0.31 square miles of water within Madison, or 0.9% of its total area. It is 0.7 percentage points higher than the 0.2% recorded for Fayette County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Madison township has 103.8 times the land area of nearby Pancoastburg CDP (0.34 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

