THE ORLEANS COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Northern Piedmont setting.
Orleans County has 694.6 square miles of land in Vermont. 4 mapped landscape regions meet across Orleans County: Northern Piedmont, Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands, Quebec/New England Boundary Mountains, 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
Orleans County intersects 4 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Northern Piedmont67.1%
- Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands19.1%
- Quebec/New England Boundary Mountains12.8%
- Upper Montane/Alpine Zone1.1%
Finding your parcel within Orleans County
The atlas lists 33 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Orleans County, including Lowell, Derby, Barton. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Orleans County by land and water
The Census records 27.6 square miles of water within Orleans County, or 3.8% of its total area. That share is close to Orleans County’s 3.8%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Orleans County has 17.2 times the land area of nearby Irasburg town (40.3 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Caledonia County, Essex County, Franklin County, Lamoille County within Vermont. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.