THE THORN LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Loamy High Lime Till Plains setting.
Thorn township has 37.1 square miles of land in Perry 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
Thorn and Perry County
Thorn is associated with Perry 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.
Thorn by land and water
The Census records 0.86 square miles of water within Thorn, or 2.3% of its total area. It is 1.2 percentage points higher than the 1.1% recorded for Perry County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Thorn township has 69.7 times the land area of nearby Thornville village (0.53 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

