THE VERNON COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Blufflands and Coulees setting.
Vernon County has 791.6 square miles of land in Wisconsin. The mapped landscape region in Vernon County is Blufflands and Coulees.
Deeply cut valleys divide a bedrock plateau with windblown soil on many uplands. Glaciers had less influence here than in neighboring regions, leaving a distinctly hilly landscape.
Regional context: Driftless Area ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Finding your parcel within Vernon County
The atlas lists 33 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Vernon County, including Franklin, Viroqua, Jefferson. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Vernon County by land and water
The Census records 24.8 square miles of water within Vernon County, or 3% of its total area. That share is close to Vernon County’s 3%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Vernon County has 16.8 times the land area of nearby Viroqua town (47.2 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Crawford County, Juneau County, La Crosse County, Monroe County, Richland County, Sauk County within Wisconsin. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

