The survey — Township 38 North, Range 2 East

The town lies in Section 23, Township 38 North, Range 2 East, Second Principal Meridian. The derivation, stated so it can be re-run: Indiana's baseline stands at 38°28′20″ N and its meridian at 86°27′21″ W; the township tiers run six miles to the tier, so Township 38's south edge stands 37 tiers — 222 miles — north of the baseline, at about 41.69° N, and the town point (41.717607°) falls in the township's southernmost section row; Range 2 East spans roughly 86.28°–86.19° W at this latitude under meridian convergence, and the point (−86.250592°) falls in its middle column — Section 23, the section whose centre the point stands just west of. The derivation carries two calibrations, both printed's note: it reproduces North Liberty's dedication-proven reading (Section 29, T36N R1E) exactly, and the meridian passes west of this county altogether, so the county's ranges run east from a meridian in the next tier of counties west — Clay Township's own composition matches the frame, its Range 2 East half the old German Township and its Range 3 East half taken from Harris and Penn. The town point stands about 2.8 miles south of the surveyed state line (Kendrick's 1827 survey, ≈41.759° N) and some seven miles north of the 1817 line — inside the ten-mile strip at the top of the state, the strip the 1821 and 1826 instruments divide between them at the Parc aux Vaches meridian.