Vermont Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
4,400 ft 1,340 m3,320 ft 1,010 m2,780 ft 845 m1,700 ft 520 m630 ft 190 m88 ft 27 m
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USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- State area
- Fades everything outside the official state boundary (US Census).
Elevation Data
Vermont averages about 1,250 ft (380 m) above sea level across all its land. Its ground runs from 88 ft on the northwest side to 4,395 ft on Mount Mansfield.
Average elevation
1,250 ft 380 m
all land in Vermont
Highest
4,395 ft 1,340 m
on Mount Mansfield
Lowest
88 ft 27 m
on the northwest side
Vermont spans about 4,312 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where most of its land lies, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Average of all land | 1,250 ft380 m |
| Highest point In Vermont, on Mount Mansfield (NGS survey height) | 4,395 ft1,340 m |
| Lowest point In Vermont, on the northwest side | 88 ft27 m |
Elevation profile, south to north
157 mi south to north through Burlington.
Topographic Map
- Location
- State in the New England division of the Northeast region, United States
- Population
- 648,493 2024 est.
- Land area
- 9,217.3 sq mi + 397.9 sq mi water
- Density
- 70 per sq mi
- Counties
- 14
- Time zone
- Eastern UTC−5 / −4
- Landform regions
- New England 83%, St. Lawrence Valley 16%
- Drains to
- Canada 58%, Long Island Sound 40%
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS
Nearby Places
Neighboring states sharing a border, by average
- Vermont1,250 ft
- New Hampshire1,150 ft
- New York1,130 ft
- Massachusetts550 ft
Rankings by average elevation
- States in the United States22nd highest of 52
Peaks and hills highest inside
- Mount Mansfield4,395 ft
- Killington Peak4,229 ft
- Camels Hump4,079 ft
- Mount Ellen4,080 ft
- Stratton Mountain3,940 ft
All 14 counties by average elevation
- Bennington County1,720 ft
- Essex County1,600 ft
- Windham County1,370 ft
- Caledonia County1,370 ft
- Washington County1,360 ft
- Orleans County1,340 ft
- Lamoille County1,300 ft
- Orange County1,290 ft
- Windsor County1,290 ft
- Rutland County1,260 ft
- Addison County880 ft
- Chittenden County760 ft
- Franklin County690 ft
- Grand Isle County140 ft
How we measure
- Average: every USGS 3DEP bare-earth cell of land inside the Census state boundary (TIGER/Line, Jan 1 2026), weighted equally, on a 3 arc-second (≈300 ft, 93 m) grid, coarsened from 1 arc-second so the whole area fits one run. Land means the boundary minus Census area water (on this grid, water areas of at least half a cell).
- Highest and lowest: the highest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 highest grid cells; it is a named summit, so its height is the peak method: the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it. Lowest: the lowest land cell, re-read at 1 arc-second around the 25 lowest grid cells; coastal ground within 3 ft (1 m) of named tidal water counts as sea level.
- Pits: the lowest point is the lowest ground outside closed hollows (quarry floors, mine pits, terrain-model artifacts): any hollow under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²), and any hollow under 2 sq mi (5 km²) whose floor is more than 100 ft (30 m) below its rim; and outside patches below sea level of under 0.4 sq mi (1 km²). The single lowest 3DEP cell, 46 ft at 44.5112° N, 73.1937° W, is in such a hollow or patch and is not counted.
- Nearby Places: neighboring states and rankings use each one's average elevation, on its own grid, the same figure its page shows. Peaks and hills: the highest summits inside the state with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence, then the highest federal (GNIS) summits inside it when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Counties: each one's average on its own grid (1 arc-second, coarser for the largest), the same figure its own page shows.
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (TIGER boundaries and water, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, county adjacency); NOAA NGS survey heights; BTS time zones. All public domain.