THE BENNINGTON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands setting.
Bennington County has 674.2 square miles of land in Vermont. 5 mapped landscape regions meet across Bennington County: Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands, Taconic Mountains, Western New England Marble Valleys, among others.
Forested hills and mountains span northern New England, the Adirondacks and higher Catskills. Glacial lakes and steep streams accompany a transition between northern hardwood and spruce-fir forests.
Regional context: Northeastern Highlands ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Bennington County intersects 5 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands42.8%
- Taconic Mountains26.9%
- Western New England Marble Valleys18.8%
- Upper Montane/Alpine Zone10.2%
- Taconic Foothills1.3%
Finding your parcel within Bennington County
The atlas lists 31 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Bennington County, including Dorset, Woodford, Pownal. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Bennington County by land and water
The Census records 2.66 square miles of water within Bennington County, or 0.4% of its total area. That share is close to Bennington County’s 0.4%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Bennington County has 175.8 times the land area of nearby Arlington CDP (3.84 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Rutland County, Windham County, Windsor County within Vermont. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

