THE ESSEX COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Quebec/New England Boundary Mountains setting.
Essex County has 662.4 square miles of land in Vermont. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Essex County: Quebec/New England Boundary Mountains, Northern Piedmont, Northern Connecticut Valley, 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
Essex County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Quebec/New England Boundary Mountains79.8%
- Northern Piedmont10.8%
- Northern Connecticut Valley7.1%
- Upper Montane/Alpine Zone2.2%
Finding your parcel within Essex County
The atlas lists 19 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Essex County, including Brighton, Concord, Lunenburg. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Essex County by land and water
The Census records 11.1 square miles of water within Essex County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Essex County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Essex County has 26.7 times the land area of nearby Brunswick town (24.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caledonia County, Orleans County within Vermont. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.