THE WINDHAM COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands setting.
Windham County has 786 square miles of land in Vermont. 6 mapped landscape regions meet across Windham County: Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands, Vermont Piedmont, 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
Windham County intersects 6 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Green Mountains/Berkshire Highlands55.6%
- Vermont Piedmont33.9%
- Connecticut Valley3.5%
- Upper Montane/Alpine Zone3.5%
- Worcester/Monadnock Plateau1.9%
Northeastern Coastal Zone in Windham County
Irregular plains and low hills form a coastal transition with glacial lakes and oak-pine woodland. This northeastern landscape is gentler than the mountainous country farther inland.
Read the regional source ↗Finding your parcel within Windham County
The atlas lists 44 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Windham County, including Jamaica, Stratton, Westminster. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Windham County by land and water
The Census records 12.7 square miles of water within Windham County, or 1.6% of its total area. That share is close to Windham County’s 1.6%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Windham County has 19.8 times the land area of nearby Newfane town (39.8 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Bennington County, Windsor County within Vermont. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

