THE SPRING LAKE LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Missouri Coteau setting.
Spring Lake township has 35 square miles of land in Hand County. Its Census reference point is in Southern 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
Spring Lake and Hand County
Spring Lake is associated with Hand 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.
Spring Lake by land and water
The Census records 0.89 square miles of water within Spring Lake, or 2.5% of its total area. It is 2.2 percentage points higher than the 0.2% recorded for Hand County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Spring Lake township has 96.8% of the land area of nearby Bates township (36.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

