THE NORTH VERNON LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Pre-Wisconsinan Drift Plains setting.
North Vernon city has 7.88 square miles of land in Jennings County. Its Census reference point is in Pre-Wisconsinan Drift 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
North Vernon and Jennings County
North Vernon is associated with Jennings 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.
North Vernon by land and water
The Census records 0.01 square miles of water within North Vernon, or 0.1% of its total area. It is 0.3 percentage points lower than the 0.5% recorded for Jennings County. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, North Vernon city has 31.5% of the land area of nearby Center township (25 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.

