THE SUNBURY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Sunbury city has 7.14 square miles of land in Delaware County. Its Census reference point is in Loamy High Lime Till 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
Sunbury and Delaware County
Sunbury is associated with Delaware 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.
Sunbury by land and water
The Census records 0.03 square miles of water within Sunbury, or 0.3% of its total area. It is 2.7 percentage points lower than the 3.1% recorded for Delaware County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Sunbury city has 4.1 times the land area of nearby Galena village (1.74 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

