THE RUTLAND COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands setting.
Rutland County has 930.6 square miles of land in Vermont. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Rutland 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
Rutland County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands34.6%
- Taconic Mountains23.8%
- Western New England Marble Valleys17.1%
- Taconic Foothills10.9%
- Champlain Lowlands9.4%
Eastern Great Lakes Lowlands in Rutland County
Glacially shaped lowlands and irregular plains border the Great Lakes and adjacent hills. The lakes influence regional weather, while local landforms reflect both glacial deposits and former shorelines.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Rutland County
The atlas lists 47 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Rutland County, including Chittenden, Shrewsbury, Mount Holly. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Rutland County by land and water
The Census records 15 square miles of water within Rutland County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Rutland County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Rutland County has 253.1 times the land area of nearby West Rutland CDP (3.68 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Addison County, Bennington County, Windsor County within Vermont. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

