THE VERNON PARISH LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Southern Tertiary Uplands setting.
Vernon Parish has 1,326.7 square miles of land in Louisiana. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Vernon Parish: Southern Tertiary Uplands, Floodplains and Low Terraces, Flatwoods.
The Piney Woods occupy irregular plains at the western edge of the southern forest belt. Pine and hardwood landscapes alternate with wider river corridors such as the Red River valley.
Regional context: South Central Plains ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Vernon Parish intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Southern Tertiary Uplands97.2%
- Floodplains and Low Terraces2.7%
- Flatwoods0.1%
Finding your parcel within Vernon Parish
The atlas lists 10 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Vernon Parish, including DeRidder, Leesville, Fort Johnson North. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Vernon Parish by land and water
The Census records 13.6 square miles of water within Vernon Parish, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Vernon Parish’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Vernon Parish has 158.3 times the land area of nearby Fort Johnson North CDP (8.38 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Allen Parish, Beauregard Parish, Natchitoches Parish, Rapides Parish, Sabine Parish within Louisiana. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.