THE VANDERBURGH COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands setting.
Vanderburgh County has 233.4 square miles of land in Indiana. 2 mapped landscape regions meet across Vanderburgh County: Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands, Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands.
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.
Regional context: Interior River Valleys and Hills ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Vanderburgh County intersects 2 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green River-Southern Wabash Lowlands62%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands38%
Finding your parcel within Vanderburgh County
The atlas lists 13 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Vanderburgh County, including Evansville, Scott, Knight. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Vanderburgh County by land and water
The Census records 3.46 square miles of water within Vanderburgh County, or 1.5% of its total area. That share is close to Vanderburgh County’s 1.5%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Vanderburgh County has 102.9 times the land area of nearby Highland CDP (2.27 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Gibson County, Posey County, Warrick County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

