THE VERMILION COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Illinois/Indiana Prairies setting.
Vermilion County has 898.3 square miles of land in Illinois. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Vermilion County: Illinois/Indiana Prairies, Glaciated Wabash Lowlands.
Glaciated plains historically supported tallgrass prairie mixed with oak and hickory woodland. Dark prairie soils and broad farming landscapes distinguish much of the Central Corn Belt.
Regional context: Central Corn Belt Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Vermilion County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Illinois/Indiana Prairies70.4%
- Glaciated Wabash Lowlands29.6%
Interior River Valleys and Hills in Vermilion County
Broad terraced river valleys contrast with wooded slopes and dissected glacial plains. Bottomland settings and upland oak landscapes occur close together across the Interior River Valleys and Hills.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Vermilion County
The atlas lists 42 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Vermilion County, including Grant, Butler, Oakwood. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Vermilion County by land and water
The Census records 2.91 square miles of water within Vermilion County, or 0.3% of its total area. That share is close to Vermilion County’s 0.3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Vermilion County has 17.5 times the land area of nearby Blount township (51.4 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Champaign County, Douglas County, Edgar County, Ford County, Iroquois County within Illinois. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

