THE VIGO COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Wabash Lowlands setting.
Vigo County has 403.6 square miles of land in Indiana. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Vigo County: Glaciated Wabash Lowlands, Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands, Illinois/Indiana Prairies, among others.
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
Vigo County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Wabash Lowlands55.3%
- Wabash-Ohio Bottomlands28.2%
- Illinois/Indiana Prairies8.3%
- Wabash River Bluffs and Low Hills8.2%
Central Corn Belt Plains in Vigo 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 Vigo County
The atlas lists 30 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Vigo County, including Sugar Creek, Fayette, Prairie Creek. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Vigo County by land and water
The Census records 6.82 square miles of water within Vigo County, or 1.7% of its total area. That share is close to Vigo County’s 1.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Vigo County has 11.6 times the land area of nearby Terre Haute city (34.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Clay County, Parke County, Sullivan County, Vermillion County within Indiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

