THE VERMILLION COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Wabash Lowlands setting.
Vermillion County has 256.9 square miles of land in Indiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Vermillion County: Glaciated Wabash Lowlands, Illinois/Indiana Prairies, 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
Vermillion County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Wabash Lowlands64.5%
- Illinois/Indiana Prairies35.4%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands0.1%
Central Corn Belt Plains in Vermillion County
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.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Vermillion County
The atlas lists 17 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Vermillion County, including Helt, Highland, Vermillion. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Vermillion County by land and water
The Census records 3.02 square miles of water within Vermillion County, or 1.2% of its total area. That share is close to Vermillion County’s 1.2%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Vermillion County has 5.1 times the land area of nearby Vermillion township (50.5 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Fountain County, Parke County, Vigo County, Warren County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

