THE ORANGE COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Vermont Piedmont setting.
Orange County has 687 square miles of land in Vermont. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Orange County: Vermont Piedmont, Northern Piedmont, Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands, 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
Orange County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Vermont Piedmont68.1%
- Northern Piedmont23.7%
- Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands4.7%
- Northern Connecticut Valley3.6%
Finding your parcel within Orange County
The atlas lists 24 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Orange County, including Newbury, Topsham, Corinth. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Orange County by land and water
The Census records 4.63 square miles of water within Orange County, or 0.7% of its total area. That share is close to Orange County’s 0.7%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Orange County has 19 times the land area of nearby Vershire town (36.1 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Addison County, Caledonia County, Washington County, Windsor County within Vermont. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.