List of counties in Vermont

This is a list of the fourteen  in the of . These countries together contain 255 political units, or "places", including 237, 9 , 5 s, and 4. Each county has a, known in Vermont as shire town. In 1777, Vermont had two counties. The western side of the state was called Bennington County and the eastern was called. In 1781 Cumberland County was broken up into three counties in Vermont, plus Washington County, which eventually became part of. Today's Washington County was known as until 1814. Essex County, Orleans County, and Caledonia County are commonly referred to as the .

The FIPS county code is the five-digit Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) code which uniquely identifies counties and county equivalents in the United States. The three-digit number is unique to each individual county within a state, but to be unique within the entire United States, it must be prefixed by the state code. This means that, for example, while, is 001, ,  and ,  are also 001. To uniquely identify Addison County, Vermont, one must use the state code of 50 plus the county code of 001; therefore, the unique nationwide identifier for Addison County, Vermont is 50001. The links in the column are to the Census Bureau Info page for that county.